Halfak added a comment.
could pywikibot use MediaWiki-Utilities for only dump processing
Totally. :)
The only substantial dependency is the use of external UNIX utilities for processing 7zip XML dumps. Regretfully, there is no python library with support for 7zip.
TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89764
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