On 01/06/05, james jamessampford@supanet.com wrote:
just finished downloading the en image dump, tried extracting it with winrar -
anyone of an extracter that does a folder intact job
http://download.wikimedia.org/images/README_ABOUT_FILE_FORMAT.txt mentions how to extract them correctly under *NIX system - so one way would be to get cygwin up and running. A quick search also turned up this Windows port of a "libarchive" which seems like it may include a compatible "tar" utility - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libarchive.htm
once that is extracted - how will my wiki know where the images are for each artical, and thus include them within each artical?
For that, you need to download the "image" and "imagelinks" database tables from http://download.wikimedia.org/#en.wikipedia to go with your "cur" dump (the "imagelinks" one could probably be rebuilt programmatically, but that's likely to be slower than just downloading it).