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I was thinking the same. It must take much less space in database form than all the html pages.
by dal 1y ago
I was thinking the same. It must take much less space in database form than all the html pages.
- josephg 1y agoIts also kind of bad form to scrape a huge website when there's a downloadable dump available. Save yourself, and more importantly wikimedia, a whole lot of bandwidth & CPU cycles.
- blacksmith_tb 1y agoAnd torrenting the dumps helps distribute them to others as well.