Solution:

With the file now being only 280kb I can use Special:Import instead of  
mwdumper.jar, which works as expected:

"    * All revisions were previously imported.

Import finished! "

So this was a problem with mwdumper *shrug*, oh well.

Thanks for all your help, Dawson

On 15 Jan 2009, at 12:22, Daniel Kinzler wrote:

> Dawson schrieb:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have used Special:Export at en.wikipedia to export
>> "Diabetes_mellitus" and ticked the box "include templates" (I'm only
>> really after the templates).
>>
>> The resulting XML file is 40.1mb so I decided to go with mwdumper.js
>> rather than Special:Import.
>>
>> I'm working on a fresh build of mediawiki on my local system. When
>> running the command:
>>
>> java -jar mwdumper.jar --format=sql:1.5  
>> Wikipedia-20090113203939.xml |
>> mysql -u root -p wiki
>>
>> It is returning the following error:
>>
>> 1 pages (0.102/sec), 1,000 revs (102.062/sec)
>> ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 99: Duplicate entry '45970' for key 1
>
> This happens when the XML dump contains the same page twice (or was  
> it the same
> revision, even?). Which shouldn't happen. And if it happens,  
> mwdumper shouldn't
> crash and burn.
>
> I don't know a goos way around this, really, sorry. The question is:  
> *why* does
> the dump include the same page twice? Is that legal in terms of the  
> dump format?
> If yes, why can't mwdumper cope with it?
>
> -- daniel
>
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