On 01/06/05, james <jamessampford(a)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).
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]