Hi!. I downloaded “pages-articles.xml.bz2″ and I am using it through WikiTaxi. It’s working fine but I have a question. I downloaded the above mentioned dump which was created in Jan. 2013. Now there’s the new version of this dump available created in April 2013. My question is can I update my older dump to the current one without downloading all the data? I only need the updates. Please help.
There are experimental incremental dumps [1], but I'm not sure if they would work for you, especially since they don't seem to go to January.
There's also a proposed Google Summer of Code project to make this possible [2], but that's going to be completed in September at the earliest.
So, right now, I think the best option is to download the whole dump again.
Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]]
[1]: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/incr/ [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013#Incremental_data_dumps
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Sajid Hussain sajidbinraheem@gmail.comwrote:
Hi!. I downloaded “pages-articles.xml.bz2″ and I am using it through WikiTaxi. It’s working fine but I have a question. I downloaded the above mentioned dump which was created in Jan. 2013. Now there’s the new version of this dump available created in April 2013. My question is can I update my older dump to the current one without downloading all the data? I only need the updates. Please help.
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Also, I'm fairly certain that Wikitaxi will not be able to take an incremental dump file (2013-April) and append / update an existing Wikitaxi database (your 2013-Jan).
There is also the larger issue of Scribunto support. The 2013-April English Wikipedia dump comes down with significant {{#invoke}} tags for Refs, Navboxes, convert, etc.. Since Wikitaxi was last updated in 2010-June, it's safe to say that you will just see {{#invoke}} in place of actual content. If you're working with a Wikipedia in a different language, then this will be less of a factor.
If you're interested in using a 2013-April English Wikipedia dump, you could try xowa: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xowa/ It is a free, open-source, offline wikipedia app that does handle Scribunto and has other features. Note that I am the xowa developer.
You can also try sending an email to the Wikitaxi mailing list for a definitive answer: http://www.wikitaxi.org/delphi/doku.php/mailinglist
Hope this helps.
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Petr Onderka gsvick@gmail.com wrote:
There are experimental incremental dumps [1], but I'm not sure if they would work for you, especially since they don't seem to go to January.
There's also a proposed Google Summer of Code project to make this possible [2], but that's going to be completed in September at the earliest.
So, right now, I think the best option is to download the whole dump again.
Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]]
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Sajid Hussain <sajidbinraheem@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi!. I downloaded “pages-articles.xml.bz2″ and I am using it through WikiTaxi. It’s working fine but I have a question. I downloaded the above mentioned dump which was created in Jan. 2013. Now there’s the new
version
of this dump available created in April 2013. My question is can I update my older dump to the current one without downloading all the data? I only need the updates. Please help.
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