There is a way to download wikidumps for any project / language, the data is from early 2009. I will detail the steps as a note for future reference.

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Next step is either to copy a file using SCP or start your own FTP server on the EC2 instance and download the files that you need. You will need to pay a small fee but this is in the range of cents.

Best,

Diederik

Thank you for your comprehensive description of accessing the archived data in EC2.

Personally, I will consider it to get a dump that way in order to continue working. However, I am curious if there are any news about the regular server. Last update in http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Dataset1 was ten days ago and I wonder how likely it is to fix the server e.g. next week.

Is there anybody here on the list who may update the wiki page?

Thanks! Sven