Thomas Dalton wrote:

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Not to years but yes the English Wikipedia dumps very rarely work. De.wikipedia is starting to suffer the same issues and image database dumps don't happen.

No, I think it really has been two years (September 2006 to be precise). I'm pretty sure there have been no complete dumps this calendar year. I believe there was one (or two?) full dump process that claimed to run to completion in 2007 but it was later found to have been truncated (i.e. it didn't really dump all of enwiki, only a portion of it).

If I am wrong and there really is a more recent complete history dump of enwiki floating around somewhere, then I'd love to hear about it, but I don't believe that is the case.

That sounds about right to me. I think the confusion may come from there being lots of different dumps - the smaller dumps of enwiki do succeed (occasionally, at least!), it's the full dump of every revision of every page that fails routinely.

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