Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-16 Thread emmanuel
Le mar 16/02/10 14:13, Jamie Morken jmor...@shaw.ca a écrit: What is the benefit of the database dumps being archived/distributed in xml format instead of sql format?  Converting the xml to sql takes a long time for big wiki's and people seem to have problems with this step, so why isn't the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-16 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! Converting the xml to sql takes a long time for big wiki's and people seem to have problems with this step, so why isn't the sql format available for download instead of the xml format? Our dumps are not 'sql dumps'. We assemble them from all the different parts (memcached, multiple

Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-16 Thread Brion Vibber
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-16 Thread Brion Vibber
On 2/11/10 7:41 AM, emman...@engelhart.org wrote: Almost one month ago I have reported a bug in mwdumper which seems to me to be critical. I simply can't user mwdumper with the itwiki XML dumps: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22137 I have extract the problematic part of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-16 Thread Jamie Morken
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:34:41 -0800 From: Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer? To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: hlekvf$nl...@ger.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 2/16/10 7:03 AM, Jamie Morken

Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-12 Thread emmanuel
Le ven 12/02/10 01:52, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org a écrit: emmanu e...@engelhart.org wrote: mwdumper is an almost mandatory tool to spread our content and for this reason i wanted to speak about that on the ML. You might have to be more specific than that. It doesn't seem like

Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-12 Thread Christensen, Courtney
emman...@engelhart.org said: Le ven 12/02/10 01:52, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org a écrit: emman...@engelhart.org wrote: mwdumper is an almost mandatory tool to spread our content and for this reason i wanted to speak about that on the ML. You might have to be more specific than

Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-12 Thread emmanuel
Le ven 12/02/10 14:24, Christensen, Courtney christens...@battelle.org a écrit: We use the DumpHTML extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML) to make static copies of our wikis. It used to be a maintenance script. Maybe that would work for you? The DumpHTML extension is

Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-12 Thread Bilal Abdul Kader
mwDumper is essential also for anyone wiling to replicate a wiki locally for any purpose. There are alternatives such as xml2SQL or importDump.php but mwDumper is the most efficient in terms of correctness and completeness or speed sometimes. bilal == Verily, with hardship comes ease. On Fri,

[Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-11 Thread emmanuel
Hi Almost one month ago I have reported a bug in mwdumper which seems to me to be critical. I simply can't user mwdumper with the itwiki XML dumps: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22137 I have extract the problematic part of the XML but until now I do not have had any remark

Re: [Wikitech-l] [mwdumper] new maintainer?

2010-02-11 Thread Tim Starling
emman...@engelhart.org wrote: mwdumper is an almost mandatory tool to spread our content and for this reason i wanted to speak about that on the ML. You might have to be more specific than that. It doesn't seem like a mandatory tool to me. -- Tim Starling