Imran Latif, 11/04/2013 08:26:
Thanks for replying, Your reply makes sense. I just need to confirm that if i used the following Dump http://dumps.wikimedia.org/fiwiki/20130323/
And download all sql and XML files and populates my table using some utility, then the whole Wikipedia data is configured ? I mean to say that this dump provide me whole data of Wikipedia, including content, revision history etc. Or i need something more.
Well, importDump.php is horrible and we have a thread "making imports suck less" 20 min before yours. :) But Ariel made some nice pages: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps/Tools_for_importing#Converting_to_SQL_first is the way and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps/Import_examples has a viable tutorial. In some cases you may prefer to avoid some stuff you don't need, or even to populate some tables on your own... add your examples, as the page says. ;-)
Nemo