[Mediawiki-l] Image dumps availability

[Platonides]

Carlos Jorge Andrade wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Regarding the image dumps for the several wikipedia languages...
> 
> Why are all the latest dumps from 2005 ? Have they sttoped for any  
> reason ?
> Are they expected to be available again any time soon ?
> 
> The thing is I have imported the pt.wiki  xml dump into a fresh  
> mediawiki install and now it doesn't have most of the images.
> Is there an alternative to showing empty image place holders ?  
> Getting the images dump another way ? Removing the images wiki markup  
> inclusion code from the articles ?
> 
> Thanks.

select il_to from imagelinks; and grab all referenced images? Though 
probably not very good for server load... :/