On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:56 AM, gnosygnu gnosygnu@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the clarification. So it looks like the JSON dumps were designed only to have entity data. I guess it was never ever meant to have other MediaWiki data, such as other namespaces, page table metadata, other tables, etc..
I guess my main question is: are there any plans to phase out the XML dump? I assume no, but given the recent problems with the XML dump process, I just wanted to make sure.
Thanks again for the help.
There are no plans to phase them out from the Wikidata side. But please be aware that you can't rely on the entity format in there being stable as Daniel said. I don't know what the WMF's plans for all XML dumps are or if there are any.
Cheers Lydia