On 3/9/2011 11:29 AM, James Linden wrote:
Why do you
need to access the live wikipedia for this?
Using categorylinks.sql and page.sql you should be able to fetch the
same data. Probably faster.
In my research, the answer to this question is two-fold
A) Creating a local copy of wikipedia (using mediawiki and various
import tools) is quite a process, and requires a significant
investment of time and research unto itself.
You don't need a local copy of MediaWiki or any special tools to use the
SQL dumps, just MySQL.
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Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)