[Foundation-l] Re: Hosting scans of the 1911 Britannica onWikimedia

Wed Nov 9 15:44:02 UTC 2005

On 11/9/05, Brian <brian0918 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Each volume is about 150-200MB. I don't see too many people lining up to
> download that much just to get one specific illustration they want to
> add to a Wikipedia article. We're trying to make the encyclopedia not
> only freely available, but easily accessible. Bittorrent or any such
> middle-man is just another easily-avoidable layer of difficulty for the
> end-user.

 I don't see too many people downloading it either, as long as it's still in
image form. I just think bittorrent would make it easier to download for
those who do want to download it. It'd be nice if the database dumps were
available this way as well.