Thank you very much for the forward, Nemo.<div><br></div><div>Ariel, could you please post to these lists if/when you&#39;re having IRC discussions on this topic?  It&#39;s of the highest importance to me and Aaron Halfaker at least, and to many others.  I have written down some ideas in the article that I would like to defend in meetings / debates.</div><div><br>On Saturday, February 21, 2015, Federico Leva (Nemo) &lt;<a href="mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com">nemowiki@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">FYI<br>
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Oggetto:        [Xmldatadumps-l] Your comments needed (long term dumps rewrite?)<br>
Data:   Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:30:01 +0200<br>
Mittente:       Ariel Glenn WMF &lt;<a>ariel@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;<br>
A:      <a>Xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
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The MediaWiki Core team has opened a discussion about getting more<br>
involved in and maybe redoing the dumps infrastructure.  A good starting<br>
point is to understand how folks use the dumps already or want to use<br>
them but can&#39;t, and some questions about that are listed here:<br>
<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_Team/Backlog/Improve_dumps" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/<u></u>wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_<u></u>Team/Backlog/Improve_dumps</a> <br>
I&#39;ve added some notes but please go weigh in.  Don&#39;t be shy about what<br>
you do/what you need, this is the time to get it all on the table.<br>
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Ariel<br>
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