On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 09:02 -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
I'm testing a download of the
-meta-current.xml.bz2 right now to see
if it does indeed work, but it will take 1/2 day to get it all. I'll
post back and let you know what happens.
It took awhile on my lowly home DSL connection, but here's the results
using plain wget:
$ wget -c
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20071018/enwiki-20071018-pages-meta-cu…
--20:52:54--
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20071018/enwiki-20071018-pages-meta-cu…
=> `enwiki-20071018-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2'
Resolving
download.wikimedia.org... 66.230.200.212
Connecting to download.wikimedia.org|66.230.200.212|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5,780,471,837 (5.4G) [application/x-bzip]
100%[==================================>] 5,780,471,837 158.53K/s
ETA 00:00
07:03:59 (153.96 KB/s) - `enwiki-20071018-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2'
saved [5780471837/5780471837]
$ du -sch enwiki-20071018-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2
5.4G enwiki-20071018-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2
5.4G total
$ md5sum enwiki-20071018-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2
faa7e18e372103d861c8c933efd782e2
enwiki-20071018-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2
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