These jobs are currently written uncompressed. Starting with the next run,
I plan to write these as gzip compressed files. This means that we'll save
a lot of space for the larger abstracts dumps. Additionally,only status and
html files will be uncompressed, which is convenient for maintenance
reasons.
If anyone has a strong objection to this, please raise it now. There's a
ticket open for it:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178046
Thanks!
Ariel