Thank you, Hydriz,
usually *-latest-*.xml.bz2 links are target to previous dump during the next dump generation. But today the link was deleted. The dump is listed on http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/20150806/ but status is "waiting". Usually this status mean "waiting for other dumps generation process". But there are no other dumps in progress on this page.
RSS requests are very similar to API requests. Its cover primary task: retrieving information about the latest dump. Responce has XML format and can be easily used for automation. For example see: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/latest/wikidatawiki-latest-wb_terms.... This is not very reliable way, but it works for me for a long time.
Sincerely, Ivan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hydriz Scholz" admin@alphacorp.tk To: "Ivan" nix8436@mail.ru Cc: "Wikipedia Xmldatadumps-l" Xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] wikidatawiki-latest-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2
Hello,
This seems to be a temporary issue, as the latest partial dump does not have that file made available yet. [1] However, it may signify a larger problem as I believe the intended behavior is that the latest file remains available regardless of whether there is a new dump in the works.
Hopefully this can temporarily address your concerns. In the future, it would be possible to use an API to query the status of dumps so that developers can integrate it into their applications, making it easier to query for new dumps and even old archived copies of them.
Thanks.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Ivan nix8436@mail.ru wrote:
Hello,
dump
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/latest/wikidatawiki-latest-pages-met... becomes unavailable today. Is it temporary issue or it will not be available anymore?
Sincerely, Ivan
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