Comment by jasoncartwright
7 months 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.
7 months 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.
Do you happen to know why wikipedia didn't embrace torrents as the default download method?
Speculating: 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.
Most people don't use torrents.
I think it is a nice use case for IPFS