On 3/9/2011 11:29 AM, James Linden wrote:
Why do you need to access the live wikipedia for this? Using categorylinks.sql and page.sql you should be able to fetch the same data. Probably faster.
In my research, the answer to this question is two-fold
A) Creating a local copy of wikipedia (using mediawiki and various import tools) is quite a process, and requires a significant investment of time and research unto itself.
You don't need a local copy of MediaWiki or any special tools to use the SQL dumps, just MySQL.