[Xmldatadumps-l] another month, another dump. ho hum :-P

[Jamie Morken]

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From: "Ariel T. Glenn" <ariel at wikimedia.org>
Date: Thursday, September 8, 2011 12:22 am
Subject: [Xmldatadumps-l] another month, another dump. ho hum :-P
To: xmldatadumps-l at lists.wikimedia.org

> The September en wikipedia dumps are done.  Folks who use 
> them, note
> that this is the first run with the generation of a pile of smaller
> files.  The naming scheme as you will have noticed has an 
> additionalstring: -p<first-page-id-contained>p<last-pageid-
> contained>  Expect the
> specific groupings to change from one run to the next; it's time-
> based,rather than based on the number of pages or revisions.
> 
> You may notice a gap of a few numbers between files; this would 
> indicatethat those pages were deleted and not included in the 
> dump at all.
> 
> Since there were no issues with the network, database servers, 
> broken MW
> deployments etc., the run finished without any need for restarts 
> of a
> particular step; this is probably the fastest we'll ever see it 
> run, in
> a little under 8 days.
> 
> Any issues, please let me know.  I expect people will need 
> a script to
> download these files easily; didn't someone on this list have a 
> tool in
> the works?

Hi Ariel,

This download addon for firefox works quite well, and is cross-platform:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DownThemAll!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/
http://www.downthemall.net/

cheers,
Jamie

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