Hello, Mel. I'm not sure what is the problem with importDump.php, but it does seem like an encoding issue. Can you provide the full error dump message? A first sanity check I can think of is to verify the character-set of your MySQL server. I always use (in the MySQL configuration file): character_set_server = 'utf8' As an alternative, I have been consistently importing pages-logging.xml dumps for different Wikipedia languages with the script "pages_logging.py" in my WikiDAT tool: https://github.com/glimmerphoenix/WikiDAT/tree/master/wikidat/sources The only (additional) dependencies is to have Python and the Python MySQLdb module installed (you have not say which is your operating system). First, you need to have a MySQL database already created, as well as the logging table according to this schema: https://github.com/glimmerphoenix/WikiDAT/blob/master/wikidat/sources/db/ta… (logging table is at the end of the file). Usage is (from command line): $ python pages_logging.py db_name db_user db_passw dump_file log_file Example: $ python pages_logging.py enwiki foouser foopassw enwiki-pages-logging.xml.gz enwiki-pages-logging.log It may create a bit more info than you strictly need, but you should be able to import the dump file without issues. If you find any problems, just let me know and I can try to help solve them. Best, Felipe. > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > Mel > _______________________________________________ > Xmldatadumps-l mailing list > Xmldatadumps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xmldatadumps-l > > >