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+=====================================
+Wikipedia Picture of the Day examples
+=====================================
+
+These examples use various asynchronous programming techniques to download 
+images and metadata from the English Wikipedia `Picture of the Day`_ archive.
+
+.. _Picture of the Day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day/Archive
+
+
+--------
+Timings
+--------
+
+``sync.py``
+===========
+
+::
+
+    $ time python sync.py 2014-06 -q 5
+    5 images downloaded (167.8 Kbytes total)
+
+    real    0m6.272s
+    user    0m0.065s
+    sys 0m0.039s
+
+    $ time python sync.py 2014-06 -q 5
+    5 images downloaded (167.8 Kbytes total)
+
+    real    0m5.447s
+    user    0m0.068s
+    sys 0m0.040s
+
+    $ time python sync.py 2014-06 -q 5
+    5 images downloaded (167.8 Kbytes total)
+
+    real    0m6.314s
+    user    0m0.068s
+    sys 0m0.040s