On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Eric Sun esun@cs.stanford.edu wrote:
Hi,
I saw this thread back in October where someone was having trouble importing the English Wikipedia XML dump: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-October/045594.html The thread back in October seemed to end without resolution, and the tools still seem to be broken, so has anyone found a solution in the meantime?
I'm using mediawiki-1.15.1 and attempting to import enwiki-20100130-pages-articles.xml.bz2.
None of these options seem to work:
- importDump.php
fails by spewing "Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler in_() in ./includes/Import.php on line 437" repeatedly
- xml2sql (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Xml2sql):
Fails with error: xml2sql: parsing aborted at line 33 pos 16. due to the new <redirect> tag introduced in the new dumps?
- mwdumper (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MWDumper):
Current XML is schema v0.4, but the documentation says that it's for 0.3
Fails immediately: siteinfo: untested generator 'MediaWiki 1.16alpha-wmf', expect trouble ahead page: expected closing tag in line 35
Any tips? Thanks! Eric
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Most of these errors are caused by the new(ish) <redirect /> tag within <page> elements. 0.4 is the correct version of the schema, but unfortunately the schema was updated and dumps were produced using them before the changes made it into a release.
1.15.1 cannot import pages with <redirect />, we should probably backport that. That, and we should rewrite the importers to not barf terribly when they encounter an unknown element.
-Chad