Thanks for the confirmation Lydia and Daniel. I just wanted to make sure that the Wikidata XML dump wasn't slotted for obsolescence. If there are further issues, I'll send them to the WMF dumping team.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 6:42 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de wrote:
Am 14.06.2015 um 11:56 schrieb gnosygnu:
Thanks for the clarification. So it looks like the JSON dumps were designed only to have entity data. I guess it was never ever meant to have other MediaWiki data, such as other namespaces, page table metadata, other tables, etc..
I guess my main question is: are there any plans to phase out the XML dump? I assume no, but given the recent problems with the XML dump process, I just wanted to make sure.
There are no plans to phase out the XML dumps. However, the processes and infrastructure involved in making them could use a bit of a boost. I can't say much about that though - while the JSON dumps are managed by the Wikidata team at WMDE, XML dumps are managed by the WMF as part of the general wikimedia platform.
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