* Jamie Morken jmorken@shaw.ca [Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:03:18 -0800]:
Ok, the simple question: how many people prefer XML or sql dumps?
I use XML dumps at my own much smaller wikis all the time. The advantages are already described by emmanuel@engelhart.org I never tried to load huge wp-en dumps, though. I've head that importDump.php is too slow or even may be troublesome (memory/resource leaks?) with these huge dumps. That probably can be fixed to dump in chunks, then restart the php process. I have suspection towards non-core tools, like mwdumper, though I never tried that (my dumps are not so huge). My voice also has low weight, I am not a core developer. Dmitriy