Brion Vibber wrote:
Incidentally, I've uploaded a new version of
mwdumper.jar. This doesn't yet
include a GUI frontend, but does:
* bundle the Xerces XML library so it works on Java 1.4
* bundle the MySQL connector, so it _might_ work to connect to a database
directly without fetching a separate driver jar (not tested)
* should run through our dumps on the default heap size
http://download.wikimedia.org/tools/mwdumper.jar
Hope this is OK, but I've always had a niggling feeling that there was
something just slightly wrong with the MWDumper documentation /
README.txt, but I could never quite put my finger on why. And then it
hit me: at a philosophical level, it just does not fit. It's written
documentation, about a wiki tool, created by wiki gurus, and discussed
on a wiki mailing list, but yet it is completely static read-only
information: At the risk of preaching to choir, this documentation
really needs to be on a wiki - just like everything else - so that
it's users can expand it, clarify it, and improve it.
Hope you don't mind, but I grabbed the README and copied it to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MWDumper , and then I added
some bits that I thought were missing.
Assuming you don't object, you may wish to make
http://download.wikimedia.org/tools/README.txt either redirect to the
above URL (or just change the text to say: "see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MWDumper")uot;).
All the best,
Nick.