Are you really thinking in downloading the 638,763 file Wikimedia Commons
store??
Moreover, only a little part of the images will be used... I suggest you to
do some random caching-browsing from a good connection before, so you get
the Pagina principale, Portale comunità, Bar... with all its images, teh
logo and the stub templates images... Those which will probably queried. If
an image is on one article, only try getting it if someone gets to such
article.
If you really have bandwidth problems, you may even want to block image
downloading... (but people will be expecting an imaged encyclopedia :( ).
Godd luck with the Festambiente.
Platonides
"Iron Bishop" wrote:
Hi all,
next week there will be a Wikipedia presentation in Italy [1] where we
will offer the opportunity to browse Wikipedia from a group of public
pc. The problem is: probably we will only have one/two GPRS card for the
internet connection, so we think there will be a problem because of the
low bandwidth.
I can install a squid trasparent proxy, but i don't know how to populate
the cache; i wish i could "download in the cache" at least all the
images stored on commons, in order to save a lot of bandwidth.
How can i do?
[1]
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Raduni/Vicenza_2006
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Flavio "Iron Bishop" Pastore
http://www.fsfe.org/fellows/ironbishop/index