On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
Umh, this might be a stupid question, but since I don't know any better, I'll ask anyway...
What would be wrong with having sectioned dumps? With mainspace and article talk pages in one dump section, and Userpages, userspace subpages and user talk pages in in another section of the dump, and a third dump for all the wonderful "Wikipedia" namespace pages and their talk pages.
That way everyone can pick and mix...
What a great idea!
(which is why it's already done that way :) ... Also, I don't believe that most mirrors which actually use the dumps copy anything but the articles though I don't have any data to back that up)