Hi!
I have a couple quick questions that I couldn't really find the answer to anywhere online. I'm trying to find the best way to have my local copy of en-wiki be able to have images.

  1. The image tarball from your.org for en-wiki (http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/fulls/20121201/) is around 2 terrabytes total! Thats way too big for me.
  2. I'm also considering using Wikix, but I couldn't find any recent references to the size of images that would download (everything i found was <2008)
  3. And lastly, I'm wondering if there is a way to turn a .ZIM file back into database format to be able to import into mysql (I'm currently running WAMP server solution).

The big thing here is I do not need all of the text of en-wiki (hence, the .zim consideration) NOR all of the images. I want to do this in the most economical way possible. Does anyone have any suggestions?