Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Namespace names

2013-07-02 Thread Byrial Jensen
At 02-07-2013 21:49, John wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces|namespacealiases&format=jsonfm should be what you need. Thank you. If I change to a nonformatted format like xml or json, and repeat for all 286 Wikipedias (first, later I may also

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Namespace names

2013-07-02 Thread John
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=namespaces|namespacealiases&format=jsonfm should be what you need. On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Byrial Jensen wrote: > Hi, is there a file somewhere with a list of all namespace names and > numbers for all the Wikimedia wikis

[Xmldatadumps-l] Namespace names

2013-07-02 Thread Byrial Jensen
Hi, is there a file somewhere with a list of all namespace names and numbers for all the Wikimedia wikis. The list should at least have the canonical names, but preferably also any aliases. This is useful to find out which namespaces interwiki links and language links goes to. The canonical na

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] [Wikitech-l] Suggested file format of new incremental dumps

2013-07-02 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
Στις 02-07-2013, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 11:47 +0100, ο/η Neil Harris έγραψε: > The simplest possible dump format is the best, and there's already a > thriving ecosystem around the current XML dumps, which would be broken > by moving to a binary format. Binary file formats and APIs defined by > cod

Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] [Wikitech-l] Suggested file format of new incremental dumps

2013-07-02 Thread Neil Harris
On 01/07/13 23:21, Nicolas Torzec wrote: Hi there, In principle, I understand the need for binary formats and compression in a context with limited resources. On the other hand, plain text formats are easy to work with, especially for third-party users and organizations. Playing the devil adv