Hello XML dumps users and contributors,

Unfortunately, we have had to interrupt the enwiki dump for 20241220 https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20241220/ and delay the start of the enwiki dump on January 1st.

This is due to some performance issues in the database layer, which have been identified in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368098 and have been causing significant impact to on-wiki workflows, as well as out-of-hours notifications to our SRE teams.

We do not do this lightly and we apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause you, as we understand how important these data sets are. Please be assured that we at the WMF are working hard on improving the dumps architecture at the moment, on multiple fronts.

We will follow up with further information early in the New Year, when we re-enable the enwiki dump.

Kind regards, Ben