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Project seeders rely on trackers to coordinate distribution of Wikipedia content. In the experience of the project, trackers going offline, temporarily or permanently, are a recurring problem with the distribution system. Several innovations serve to counter tracker degradation:
Multi-tracker torrents feature multiple trackers in one torrent. This way, should one tracker go offline, the remaining trackers can continue supporting file transfer. Nominaladversary provides links to multi-tracker torrents for project seeders. Tracker sites often discourage or prohibit certain trackers from multi-tracker torrents. Individual seeders don't need to similarly restrict themselves. Any torrent posted to the project by Nominaladversary will be a more comprehensive multi-tracker torrent than the versions we post to individual tracker and indexer sites.
The best multi-tracker torrent may be the one you design for yourself. Motivated seeders can take their participation to this next level. You can edit the tracker index list of announce URLs maintained by the individual seeder for the file being seeded. There are two ways to do this. Some BitTorrent clients, like μTorrent, add trackers when you open a tracker site's torrent for a torrent already in the index. Manual editing is the other option. If you add a tracker's announce URL in your BitTorrent client, it will only work as intended if the torrent has been uploaded to that tracker.
Screenshots from two programs known to support manual editing, Azureus and μTorrent, are posted here. An example of a comprehensive tracker list supporting multi-tracker efforts is the one prepared for 2005 Wikipedia CD Selection.iso.
There are two incompatible ' trackerless' BitTorrent transfer (aka. decentralized tracking) methods: DHT-based implementations, and Azureus's 'Distributed Database'. Project seeders use both approaches. The term 'trackerless' is something of a misnomer, as decentralized or distributed tracking essentially treats every peer in the swarm as a tracker. Port forwarding is often needed to make this work properly. See http://www.portforward.com/ for technical assistance in implementing this.
These BitTorrent tracker and index sites link to Wikipedia torrents. They all do it a little differently. A private tracker is a tracker which requires registration before you can use this service. Such trackers can have a high amount of seeds, because users can get banned if their upload ratio is too low.
No registration required for upload. This list is currently empty, although BiteNova (see below) comes close.
Although registration is required to upload a torrent to these trackers, no registration is required to search for and download torrents. These sites also encourage uploading their torrents to additional trackers.
Only users registered with a private tracker will be able to use the torrent posted to that tracker. The following private trackers prohibit uploading their torrents to other trackers and/or posting external torrents:
Being closed doesn't mean they should not have WP torrents posted to them. They definitely should. Project seeders should register with these folks and should add their announce url into their list of trackers. This can be accomplished by opening the torrent from each site with your torrent program or manual editing of the tracker list, as discussed above.
"Do not upload our torrents to other trackers!" and "this generates a lot of frustration and bad-will" means we should prepare unique, single-tracker torrents to upload to each closed private tracker site.
The following index sites do not announce trackers. They serve up searchable databases of torrent files.
Special Thanks to
Paleorthid
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Wikipedia 1.0 — (
talk) FAQ — To do |
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Release version tools Guide — (talk) — (stats) |
Article selection process (talk) Version 0.8 bot selection Version 0.8 feedback |
IRC channel ( IRC) |
|
Release criteria |
Review team ( FAQ) |
Version 0.8 release (manual selection) (t) |
"Selection" project (
Talk) |
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CORE TOPICS CORE SUPPLEMENT Core topics - 1,000 ( Talk) ( COTF) (bot) |
TORRENT ( Talk) |
"Selection" project for kids ( (t)) |
WORK VIA WIKI PROJECTS ( talk) |
Pushing to 1.0 ( talk) |
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Static content subcom. |
Project seeders rely on trackers to coordinate distribution of Wikipedia content. In the experience of the project, trackers going offline, temporarily or permanently, are a recurring problem with the distribution system. Several innovations serve to counter tracker degradation:
Multi-tracker torrents feature multiple trackers in one torrent. This way, should one tracker go offline, the remaining trackers can continue supporting file transfer. Nominaladversary provides links to multi-tracker torrents for project seeders. Tracker sites often discourage or prohibit certain trackers from multi-tracker torrents. Individual seeders don't need to similarly restrict themselves. Any torrent posted to the project by Nominaladversary will be a more comprehensive multi-tracker torrent than the versions we post to individual tracker and indexer sites.
The best multi-tracker torrent may be the one you design for yourself. Motivated seeders can take their participation to this next level. You can edit the tracker index list of announce URLs maintained by the individual seeder for the file being seeded. There are two ways to do this. Some BitTorrent clients, like μTorrent, add trackers when you open a tracker site's torrent for a torrent already in the index. Manual editing is the other option. If you add a tracker's announce URL in your BitTorrent client, it will only work as intended if the torrent has been uploaded to that tracker.
Screenshots from two programs known to support manual editing, Azureus and μTorrent, are posted here. An example of a comprehensive tracker list supporting multi-tracker efforts is the one prepared for 2005 Wikipedia CD Selection.iso.
There are two incompatible ' trackerless' BitTorrent transfer (aka. decentralized tracking) methods: DHT-based implementations, and Azureus's 'Distributed Database'. Project seeders use both approaches. The term 'trackerless' is something of a misnomer, as decentralized or distributed tracking essentially treats every peer in the swarm as a tracker. Port forwarding is often needed to make this work properly. See http://www.portforward.com/ for technical assistance in implementing this.
These BitTorrent tracker and index sites link to Wikipedia torrents. They all do it a little differently. A private tracker is a tracker which requires registration before you can use this service. Such trackers can have a high amount of seeds, because users can get banned if their upload ratio is too low.
No registration required for upload. This list is currently empty, although BiteNova (see below) comes close.
Although registration is required to upload a torrent to these trackers, no registration is required to search for and download torrents. These sites also encourage uploading their torrents to additional trackers.
Only users registered with a private tracker will be able to use the torrent posted to that tracker. The following private trackers prohibit uploading their torrents to other trackers and/or posting external torrents:
Being closed doesn't mean they should not have WP torrents posted to them. They definitely should. Project seeders should register with these folks and should add their announce url into their list of trackers. This can be accomplished by opening the torrent from each site with your torrent program or manual editing of the tracker list, as discussed above.
"Do not upload our torrents to other trackers!" and "this generates a lot of frustration and bad-will" means we should prepare unique, single-tracker torrents to upload to each closed private tracker site.
The following index sites do not announce trackers. They serve up searchable databases of torrent files.
Special Thanks to
Paleorthid