Hi, On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 09:33:27AM +0200, witzman(a)ameisenwiki.de wrote: It looks like, you effectively created a pages-articles.xml.tar.bz2 (xml /in a tar file/, which is bzip2 compressed), instead of a pages-articles.xml.bz2. You can use the bzip2 program directly (see "man bzip2") to compress the .xml, instead of using it through "tar". That should give you a proper .bz2 file. For wikimedia, they are generated using https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/operations/dumps (use the "ariel" branch) First stubs (Xml structure without the actual Wikitext) are generated. Afterwards, those stubs get filled with the Wikitext. But dumpBackup.php should give you a working xml as well (see above). If it does not, that is a bug from my perspective. Best regards, Christian -- ---- quelltextlich e.U. ---- \\ ---- Christian Aistleitner ---- Companies' registry: 360296y in Linz Christian Aistleitner Gruendbergstrasze 65a Email: christian(a)quelltextlich.at 4040 Linz, Austria Phone: +43 732 / 26 95 63 Fax: +43 732 / 26 95 63 Homepage: http://quelltextlich.at/ ---------------------------------------------------------------