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If you've got some spare bandwidth & storage then seeding some of the torrents here is a cheap and fun way of helping Wikipedia out. I've served around 20TB of
by jasoncartwright 1y ago
If you've got some spare bandwidth & storage then seeding some of the torrents here is a cheap and fun way of helping Wikipedia out. I've served around 20TB of these dumps in the past year.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents
- mhitza 1y agoDo you happen to know why wikipedia didn't embrace torrents as the default download method?
- davidkwast 1y agoI think it is a nice use case for IPFS
- dijit 1y agoSpeculating: because torrents are not especially good at dealing with small modifications? Most people probably won't seed many versions, so it's a losing effort, and you need to allocate a huge chunk of space for each version. Deduplicating filesystems are sadly not in vogue.
- mmooss 1y agoMost people don't use torrents.