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

[Thomas Dalton]

On 17 May 2012 13:32, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> Because they are XML dumps, mainly.  The data in the WMF database is
> compressed in a format which can be easily randomly accessed.

It's a dump. It's not supposed to be randomly accessed. We're talking
about archives, not mirrors.