On 2/16/10 7:03 AM, Jamie Morken wrote: > Ok, the simple question: how many people prefer XML or sql dumps?
I think we have a FAQ on this... http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Download#What_happened_to_the_SQL_dumps.3F You *do* realize that such "SQL dumps" would have to be invented from whole cloth and couldn't just be dumped from the actual databases, right? The raw databases include dozens of alternate clusters and have data from different revisions compressed together, including deleted items and private data, and can't simply be released by WMF even if someone actually wanted to figure out how to replicate Wikimedia's exact storage cluster layout to do a data import. Most likely if they were created they'd simply be created by running the xml through a tool like mwdumper... -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
