[Wikipedia-l] download

[Pierre Abbat]

On Tuesday 06 August 2002 15:20, lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
> >On the FAQ it says that it is possible to download the entire
> >Wikipedia.
> >
> >I would expect that this would be something that is easy to
> >do, but there does not appear to be a link for download.  Is this
> >FAQ answer just a promise?
>
> It's in http://www.wikipedia.com/upload/cur_table.sql.gz and
> http://www.wikipedia.com/upload/old_table.sql.gz (history).
> Where would be a good place to document this?

Wait a minnow, that sounds like the files I deleted because they contain 
passwords. If we make the Wikipedia database dump available for download, we 
must make sure it does not contain passwords.

phma