Subject Re: [Firebird-general] Re: Wikipedia and Firebird?
Author Lester Caine
Artur Anjos wrote:

>>I'm not 100% sure, but I assume for everything but size and
>>performance testing, it would be sufficent to start with the database
>>dump of a single language Wikipedia. For example the dumps of the
>>Romanian Wikipedia are only 63MB, see:
>>
>>http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/ro/
>
> If someone does the job to port Wikipedia, I can download all the files
> and send it in a CD to anywhere in the world.
> There are alternative ways to send files :-))
>
> Next, we need someone to host this somewhere.

I've got rsync running in the background at the moment, but looking at
the way wikipedia have structured the data I would say that it needs
major surgery to make it much more manageable given the large volume of
data.
It looks like a nice source of raw data for playing with Full Text
Search though ;)

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