Fwd :)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@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 WikimediaAnnounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: wikiteam-discuss@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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