Dear Gordon

On 25.07.2015 01:38, Gordon Mohr wrote:

The 2015-05 enwiki nopic dump is a great resource for getting bulk
article text – much better in my experience than using scripts that
try to strip it out of XML dumps, or wrestling with a full MW+Parsoid
system.

Thank you. You use it for a research purpose?

I see threads from earlier in the year that the goal is monthly ZIM dumps.

Any projections for when that might be achieved, or perhaps just when
the process that succeeded in creating the 2015-05 dump(s) might be
repeated as another one-off?

Fixing that problem is my top-priority and we are getting better and better. Something you can see by yourself if you look at http://download.kiwix.org/zim/. Unfortunately we deal with limited hardware resources and the software solution to do these snapshots (mwoffliner) is still a little bit buggy.

WPEN being the "worse" snapshot to generate, it is also the one which suffers the most of these problems.

That said, I think we will achieve full monthly updates in the next months and I plan a new snapshot of WPEN in August (anyway).

Kind regards
Emmanuel

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