yegg@alum.mit.edu wrote in message news:1c624fe40901040620g1c69d070q9f830da33e84f725@mail.gmail.com...
The current enwiki database dump (http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/) has been crawling along since 10/15/2008.
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Is this purposeful? And is there anything I (or other community members) can do about it? I personally just need the pages-articles part. Would it be possible to dump up to that part on a different thread?
That portion of the dump is already done, and available at http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/enwiki-20081008-pages-articles...
Russ