On 3/9/2011 11:29 AM, James Linden wrote: >> Why do you need to access the live wikipedia for this? >> Using categorylinks.sql and page.sql you should be able to fetch the >> same data. Probably faster. > > In my research, the answer to this question is two-fold > > A) Creating a local copy of wikipedia (using mediawiki and various > import tools) is quite a process, and requires a significant > investment of time and research unto itself.
You don't need a local copy of MediaWiki or any special tools to use the SQL dumps, just MySQL. -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
