[Labs-l] Dumps not working for 3rd month in a row.

[Hydriz Scholz]

Hello,

Ariel noted last month that the dumps are currently being ran manually. [1] Having delays in the dumps production should thus be expected.

Hope this helps.

[1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2015-July/001153.html

> On 5 Aug 2015, at 07:26, Bryan White <bgwhite at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Three months ago, "they" changed the way dumps are done.  "They"
> wanted stubs for every language done first and work on the rest of the
> dump later.
> 
> Old way:  Two dumps a month for all languages except enwiki.  A new
> dump was started when one completed.  Except for larger languages,
> dumps were done in under a day.
> 
> New way:  One dump a month for majority of languages.  Dumps have to
> be started manually. All dumps take 2-4 weeks to complete.
> 
> Last month, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and others were
> never completed.
> 
> It's about to be August 5.  No dumps have started this month.  Only
> one dump has started in over two weeks.
> 
> 
> Does anybody know how to get dumps working again.
> 
> Bryan
> 
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