A reprieve!  Code's not ready and I need to do some timing tests, so the
March 20th run will do the standard recombining.

For updates, don't forget to check the Phab ticket!
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179059

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Ariel Glenn WMF <ar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Please forward wherever you think appropriate.
>
> For some time we have provided multiple numbered pages-articles bz2 file
> for large wikis, as well as a single file with all of the contents combined
> into one.  This is consuming enough time for Wikidata that it is no longer
> sustainable.  For wikis where the sizes of these files to recombine is "too
> large", we will skip this recombine step. This means that downloader
> scripts relying on this file will need to check its existence, and if it's
> not there, fall back to downloading the multiple numbered files.
>
> I expect to get this done and deployed by the March 20th dumps run.  You
> can follow along here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179059
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ariel
>
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