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: 1) importDump.php fails by spewing "Warning: xml_parse(): Unable to call handler in_() in ./includes/Import.php on line 437" repeatedly
2) 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?
3) mwdumper (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MWDumper): Current XML is schema v0.4, but the documentation says that it's for 0.3
4) mwimport (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps/mwimport): Fails immediately: siteinfo: untested generator 'MediaWiki 1.16alpha-wmf', expect trouble ahead page: expected closing tag in line 35
Any tips? Thanks! Eric