Hi there, I did try to add some information about where the location of the mirrors are based on the location stated when the announcement for the new mirror was made. Hopefully it can be a starting point to having an idea of a mirror with a better bandwidth for end users.
However, all the mirrors are currently either in North/South America or Europe. This does not really bring benefits of faster bandwidth to Asian and Australian people, hopefully more mirrors will be set up in these locations, then will the "download dumps based on fastest bandwidth" have the fullest effect. On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Maria Miteva <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi everyone, > > WMF constantly releases dumps <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps > >of > Wikipedia and other WMF projects. As these are huge files and download is > difficult, there is a constant need of mirrors. The current mirrors are > listed at > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Current_Mirrors > but > need some organization. Ariel Glenn (CC'ed), who is responsible of XML > dumps, is looking for somebody who can help organize the mirrors so that > people trying to donwload the dumps are offered the closest geographically > up-to-date mirror as it is usually done at other donwload sites. Does > anyone have experience with this? > > Also, if anypne has idea of organizations, which might be willing to host a > mirror ( requirements > here< > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Requirements > >), > please let me or Ariel know. > > Mariya > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- Regards, Hydriz Be social, follow/add me: Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/hydrizfb Google+: http://tinyurl.com/hydrizgl Twitter: @hydrizwiki _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
