Hi,
don't know if this issue came up already - in case it did and has been
dismissed, I beg your pardon. In case it didn't...
I hereby propose, that pbzip2 (https://launchpad.net/pbzip2) is used
to compress the xml dumps instead of bzip2. Why? Because its sibling
(pbunzip2) has a bug bunzip2 hasn't. :-)
Strange? Read on.
A few hours ago, I filed a bug report for pbzip2 (see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pbzip2/+bug/922804) together with some test
results done even some few hours before that.
The results indicate that:
bzip2 and pbzip2 are vice-versa compatible each one can create
archives, the other one can read. But if it is for uncomressing, only
pbzip2 compressed archives are good for pbunzip2.
I propose compressing the archives with pbzip2 for the following
reasons:
1) If your archiving machines are SMP systems this could lead to a
better usage of system ressources (i.e. faster compression).
2) Compression with pbzip2 is harmless for regular users of bunzip2,
so everything should run for these people as usual.
3) pbzip2-compressed archives can be uncompressed with pbunzip2 with a
speedup that scales nearly linearly with the number of CPUs in the
host.
So to sum up: It's a no loose and two win situation if you migrate to
pbzip2. And that just because pbunzip2 is slightly buggy. Isn't that
interesting? :-)
cheers,
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It's amazing there are already so many years available for download.
Especially the larger zips must have been somewhat time-consuming to
compile! It would be great if 2008 or pre-2006 packages become available in
the near future. It is a really interesting development to see
http://dumps.wikimedia.org being interested in not only compiling large
current packaged databases of various wikis, but also more historic
content. In the past, the Internet Archive was the sole distributor of
older (also historic) wiki packages.
Eventually in the far future, there will have to be some sort of viable
mechanism for cloning all the images stored on wikimedia, though as for now
the Picture of the Year packages are very interesting for those more
interested in the pretty images of wikipedia. The POTY images also make
great wallpaper packs!
I'm doing a little bit of work on deployment procedures for the dump
scripts as I push out a few small bug fixes and turn on logging. Over
the next day or so you'll notice interruptions or delays while the
conversion is happening.
Ariel
Hi all,
I have beem loooking at the wikipedia database scheme and I haven't
found any field that suggest that some contents are geographical located.
Am I wrong?
If it is possible I would like to download the geographical located
contents of Wikipedia to do something similar to what googleearth does
with the wikipedia layer
Is that possible?
Thanks in advanced.
I can't go but some people on this list should think about a panel that
disusses forkability, archival of content and other related things. In
case this sounds attractive to someone that is planning to go, deadline
for submission is in a week!
http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
I'm willing to have my brain picked by anyone who decides this is worth
doing, in case that's helpful.
Ariel
I've cranked up all the usual workers and kicked off an en wp run in
addition. If there is anything that squeaked by my spot checks we'll
know about it soon...
Ariel
Hi,
I would like to access the Wiki dumps for Wikipedia and Wikitravel.
Essentially, I am looking to get dumps for some US cities from both these
sources for product research. However, it is not very clear at
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html, which are the relevant files
to pick up.
The other question I had was at what level of atomicity data is available
in dumps. The Web Service allows us to retrieve a Wiki entry but it's not
easily parsed out into different sections or in more granular form. I was
wondering if the dumps solve this problem.
Appreciate any help about this.
Regards,
Ashish