They are XML dumps. Why did you say they are semi-useless?
I'm not sure if all the MediaWiki revision table parameters are available in the XML dumps, but most of them are.
2012/5/17 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:01 AM, emijrp emijrp@gmail.com wrote:
We at WikiTeam are uploading wiki dumps to Internet Archive, and recently some official mirrors of Wikimedia dumps (articles + images) are being created around the globe (currently in 3 different locations).
Are these actual database dumps, or are they those semi-useless XML dumps?