On Apr 6, 2005 11:45 PM, Domas Mituzas <Domas.Mituzas(a)microlink.lt> wrote:
today we did database dumps, but here we try to offload our file server albert as much as
possible, therefore I started some experimental dumps service.
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ has the newest dumps now. As soon as we make the view more
friendly and functional, it might be the one replacing
http://download.wiki...
I took a brief look at the cur en.wikipedia dump, and it would appear
that it's uncompressed, unlike the old versions which were bzip2
compressed. As the latter format seems to be around 70% of the size of
the uncompressed, shouldn't the new download page offer compressed
versions? Or do you plan to use rsync as the preferred download
strategy?
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John Fader