Ciao,

(decisamente in topic per la lista)

«Some day there may be systematic efforts to ensure that each article and course is replicated in many copies—perhaps at least once on each of the six inhabited continents. This would be a natural extension of the mission of archiving that libraries undertake today. But it would be premature to make formal plans for this now. It is sufficient for now to resolve to make sure people have permission to do this mirroring when they get around to it.» —Richard M. Stallman, The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource

se lavorate per un Università, ente, azienda o altro e potete fare servizio di mirroring come si dice sotto, c'è un file da 34 TB che contiene quasi tutte le immagini caricate su Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org) fino al 2013.

Pensate alla possibilità di mirrorare questo archivio.

Alternativamente, come singoli, potete aiutare scaricando i torrent di alcune parti di queste immagini e condividendo.

Ciao,

C

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com Date: 2014-08-01 16:42 GMT+02:00 Subject: [Commons-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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