On 23/10/11 23:19, Fred Zimmerman wrote:
> Good points! As the post indicates, I'm not very experienced with any
> of these tools and made a lot of dummy mistakes. Part of the point of
> the post is that even if you are pretty dumb, you can get this done if
> you persevere!
>
> The SQL import of the links would have been helpful; most of the
> instructions I found recommended using pages-articles.xml, which is a
> good place to start. There's no need for two copies of the big wiki.xml
> file, I would suggest just re-naming the original download to enwiki.xml
> right at the outset.
The file I mentioned to skip was enwiki.sql, which is not xml, but a
copy (in SQL queries) of the xml.