On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 11:56 AM, gnosygnu <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the clarification. So it looks like the JSON dumps were > designed only to have entity data. I guess it was never ever meant to > have other MediaWiki data, such as other namespaces, page table > metadata, other tables, etc.. > > I guess my main question is: are there any plans to phase out the XML > dump? I assume no, but given the recent problems with the XML dump > process, I just wanted to make sure. > > Thanks again for the help.
There are no plans to phase them out from the Wikidata side. But please be aware that you can't rely on the entity format in there being stable as Daniel said. I don't know what the WMF's plans for all XML dumps are or if there are any. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
