John Fader wrote:
I took a brief look at the cur en.wikipedia dump, and it would appear that it's uncompressed, unlike the old versions which were bzip2 compressed. As the latter format seems to be around 70% of the size of the uncompressed, shouldn't the new download page offer compressed versions?
The new dumps are compressed with gzip as it's faster than bzip2 (though bzip2 compresses better).
Your browser might be uncompressing it for you (naughty browser!)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)