On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 May 2012 13:32, Anthony <wikim...@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.
Not really. Yes, it's called that. And historically, it was that, but the XML "dumps" aren't really dumps at all. > It's not supposed to be randomly accessed. We're talking > about archives, not mirrors. That's why I said they're semi-useless (i.e. half-useless), not useless. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
