Thanks for the link to the ticket. I wasn't aware of the issue.

So it looks like the dump broke due to a recent change to eliminate dupes in the JSON. Can the change be backed out and the dump rerun?

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy@tuxmachine.com> wrote:

On Dec 12, 2014 1:00 PM, "gnosygnu" <gnosygnu@gmail.com> wrote:
> The 2014-12-08 version of wikidatawiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 has a status of failed:
> https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/20141208/
>
> Are there any plans to reprocess the dump? Or do we need to wait until next month to get a new copy?

Probably is
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74678#831492

-Jeremy