The updated gfdl-wikititle program has been posted to: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gfdl-wikititle This program is released under the GNU GPL version 3. This release corrects failures with importDump.php and will remove and fix corrupted article titles in the XML dumps provided by the Foundation. At present, two articles in the enwiki-20070206 dumps will cause importDump.php to fail in MediaWiki 1.9.3 and prevent the XML dumps from being imported into MediaWiki and to fail with NULL title errors. The problem appears to be related to titles which A) exceed 256 bytes in length and B) also contain multi-part paths. This same bug manifests from MediaWiki 1.7.3 through MediaWiki 1.9.3. versions with the enwiki-20070206 XML Dumps. This tool allows the XML dumps to be imported into MediaWIki 1.9.3 (which routinely fail on most Linux distros) by removing corrupted titles. This tools also supports insertion of interwiki links back into the originating Wikipedia language site for each dump to provide a GFDL compliant link back to the original article and its edit history and authors. I have also updated http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps with instructions on how to get around the problems with importing the dumps. There were two titles which caused the failures: Article number 2698248: <title>Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greatest Hits Volume One (The Byrds)</title> (I have censored the actual text in this article title and replaced it with X characters as it is inappropriate language to post to a public mailing list. Article Number 4443711: <title>Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Former (XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX) by Ashley Giles and Bradley Hogg.</title> It may be prudent to consider a filter to remove titles longer than 256 characters when the dumps are made which contain multi-part paths. There were two titles in the last dumps and they both cause importDump.php to fail with NULL title errors. Jeff