If I read the code in WikiExporter.php correctly, dumps are currently ordered by page ID.
However, I would not consider this a guarantee. I'd recommend to assume that the content of a dump are in no particular order, and that the order is subject to change without notice. -- daniel Am 03.09.2018 um 15:05 schrieb Bináris: > Hi, > > As far as I understand, pages in an XML dump are in the order of their > original creation. > This does not correspond to the page ID, because if a page gets a new id > after deletion and restore or renaming to that title or anything, the order > still remains the original. > But this sortkey itself is not stored. In other words, a dump is not sorted > by any key one could finf in the dump, and behaves as an unosorted > structure. > > Is this true? Can I use any non-linear (e.g. binary) search in a dump? > -- Daniel Kinzler Principal Platform Engineer Wikimedia Deutschland Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
