Fwd: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help

[Kartik Mistry]

Fwd :)


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From: Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemo...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:42 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] 34 TB Wikimedia Commons files on archive.org: you can help
To: Announce Mailing List <Wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <comm...@lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia developers <wikit...@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: wikiteam...@googlegroups.com


WikiTeam[1] has released an update of the chronological archive of all
Wikimedia Commons files, up to 2013. Now at ~34 TB total.
<https://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons>
I wrote to – I think – all the mirrors in the world, but apparently
nobody is interested in such a mass of media apart from the Internet
Archive (and the mirrorservice.org which took Kiwix).
The solution is simple: take a small bite and preserve a copy yourself.
One slice only takes one click, from your browser to your torrent
client, and typically 20-40 GB on your disk (biggest slice 1400 GB,
smallest 216 MB).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Wikipedia_Archive#Image_tarballs>

Nemo

P.s.: Please help spread the word everywhere.

[1] https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam

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