I managed to do the task at hand by switching to JSON dumps (because that's the new, officially supported, long-term-stable Wikidata dump format, right? Right???), so no hurry there.

Maybe the XML dump process was run in the middle of the switch to the new format, or got a stale cache for some items?

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Am 08.10.2014 21:29, schrieb Magnus Manske:
> Oh, I just noticed: same with "links" and "sitelinks".

Sounds like some revisions are using the old internal format, while some use the
canonical external representation. That shouldn't happen...

-- daniel

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