On Sun, 29 May 2005, Kate Turner wrote:
at least, they will be when the dump is complete, which will take a few more hours yet. once done, image dumps will be found at:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/images/
please read the readme files. (note: don't download dumps without an "upload.tar" symlink, because that means the dump is still in progress and the file will be incomplete!)
please let me know about any problems with these files, particularly if they don't extract correctly.
Test using http://dumps.wikimedia.org/images/wikipedia/fi/20050530_upload.tar
GNU tar on Cygwin extracts all files correctly, except for the last ones (outside any subdirectory), where I get lots of "tar: Skipping to next header" errors, and a bunch of invalid gif and png files (button_bold.gif, button_bold.png and so on).
pax doesn't seem to be available for Cygwin. I found with surprise that there's one included with windows, but it doesn't work:
pax: - : This doesn't look like a tar archive pax: - : Skipping to next file...
only the first 832 files are extracted, out of 3000.
Alfio