On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, O. O. <olson_ot(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
I am looking at the dump of the English Wikipedia at
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/ There is a file called
“all-titles-in-ns0.gz” which is supposed to contain the List of Page
Titles. If I do
cat enwiki-20081008-all-titles-in-ns0 | wc -l
I get 5716820. On the same page, a little above in
“pages-articles.xml.bz2” we have “enwiki 7649051 pages”.
The description for pages-articles.xml.bz2 says it contains "Articles,
templates, image descriptions, and primary meta-pages."
all-titles-in-ns0.gz contains (as the name suggests) only the titles
in ns0, i.e., the main namespace, articles. It does not contain
templates, image descriptions, or "primary meta-pages" (whatever those
are).