[Foundation-l] BitTorrent Downloads of enwiki Images

Sat Mar 10 17:50:42 UTC 2007

Florence Devouard wrote:

>Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>I have compiled the entire library of Wikipedia's images and have a 
>>bittorrent server ready to export this library on the internet.  I am 
>>awaiting
>>word back from the Foundation for approval to enable the torrents. 
>>
>>I have developed an automated C based server system which mirrors all 
>>Wikipedia images and compiles them into .bz2 archives as a library based 
>>on XML revision and dump.   When I get final approval, I will export 
>>these torrents to allow the images to be available from the internet.   
>>I will be in Arizona meeting with Dine (Navajo) folks next week on their 
>>projects, but will have email access. 
>>
>>The torrents will be available at
>>
>>http://www.wikigadugi.org:2780
>>
>>At some point.  I will let folks know when and if the Foundation has 
>>approved this.    
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>Jeff
>>    
>>
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>Just to be sure... Who did you ask approval from ?
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Danny,

Jeff