[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia sites not easy to archive (Was Re: Knol is closing tomorrow )

[emijrp]

They are XML dumps. Why did you say they are semi-useless?

I'm not sure if all the MediaWiki revision table parameters are available
in the XML dumps, but most of them are.

2012/5/17 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:01 AM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We at WikiTeam are uploading wiki dumps to Internet Archive, and recently
> > some official mirrors of Wikimedia dumps (articles + images) are being
> > created around the globe (currently in 3 different locations).
>
> Are these actual database dumps, or are they those semi-useless XML dumps?
>



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