I'm a student looking to work on MediaWiki during this year's Google
Summer of Code, and one of the ideas I've been interested in is in
various formats for the data dumps (and dump work in general).
How useful would dumps from wikipedia be, if they were in sqlite
databases? Would it be useful to have all the dumps as sqlite
(history, stubs, current, etc)? Or are there certain dumps (current,
for example) which would be very useful as databases?
The dumps wouldn't be direct dumps from the mysql database (unlike the
old SQL Dumps) - they'll be in a format optimized for data processing
and imports. I'll also write supporting code such as libraries for
reading the databases, etc.
What do you folks think?
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Yuvi Panda T
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