>> Not to years but yes the English Wikipedia dumps very rarely work. >> De.wikipedia is starting to suffer the same issues and image database >> dumps don't happen. > > No, I think it really has been two years (September 2006 to be > precise). I'm pretty sure there have been no complete dumps this > calendar year. I believe there was one (or two?) full dump process > that claimed to run to completion in 2007 but it was later found to > have been truncated (i.e. it didn't really dump all of enwiki, only a > portion of it). > > If I am wrong and there really is a more recent complete history dump > of enwiki floating around somewhere, then I'd love to hear about it, > but I don't believe that is the case.
That sounds about right to me. I think the confusion may come from there being lots of different dumps - the smaller dumps of enwiki do succeed (occasionally, at least!), it's the full dump of every revision of every page that fails routinely. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
