Am 14.06.2015 um 11:56 schrieb gnosygnu:
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.
There are no plans to phase out the XML dumps. However, the processes and infrastructure involved in making them could use a bit of a boost. I can't say much about that though - while the JSON dumps are managed by the Wikidata team at WMDE, XML dumps are managed by the WMF as part of the general wikimedia platform.