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it seems like Wikimedia Foundation has always been protective of the image downloads since the 90s. So many drunken midnight scripters or new urban undergrad CE

it seems like Wikimedia Foundation has always been protective of the image downloads since the 90s. So many drunken midnight scripters or new urban undergrad CEOs discovers that they can download cool images fairly quickly. AFAIK there has always been some kind of text corpus available in bulk because it is part of the mission of Wikipedia. But the image gallery is big on disk, big bandwidth compared to TEXT, and low hanging target for the uninformed, greedy and etc.

bombcar 1y ago
This is what torrents are built for. A torrent of all images updated once a year would probably do quite well.
- edoceo 1y ago
  Provided you have enough seed nodes - not free.
  - bombcar 1y ago
    I have excess bandwidth in various places - would be happy to seed.
indrora 1y ago
The Wikimedia nonfree image limitations have been a pain in my ass for years. For those unfamiliar: The images that are marked NonFree must be smaller than 1Megapixel. 1155 X 866. In practice, 1024x768 is around the maximum size.