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Start downloading a Wikipedia database dump file such as an English Wikipedia dump. It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download. Download XAMPPLITE from (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work). Make sure to pick the file ...
A database dump contains a record of the table structure and/or the data from a database and is usually in the form of a list of SQL statements ("SQL dump"). A database dump is most often used for backing up a database so that its contents can be restored in the event of data loss. Corrupted databases can often be recovered by analysis of the ...
The database dump hasn't been updated in a month now (it says it's done twice a week on the meta-wiki). Image dumps have been broken for 2 weeks' time now. Image dumps use some strange compression that apparently can only be uncompressed using the right version of the right set of programs on the right platform (in other words, anything but ...
The page mentions 19 GB in the context of a different download, pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2. The latest dump index says that the 19GB file is now about 22GB. -- John of Reading 07:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
It should be easy to run something like sed or a python script on the database dump to strip all of that formatting out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RaptorHunter (talk • contribs) 02:47, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
By default only the current version of a page is included. Optionally you can get all versions with date, time, user name and edit summary. Additionally you can copy the SQL database. This is how dumps of the database were made available before MediaWiki 1.5 and it won't be explained here further.
C++, C#, Java, Python, Smalltalk and XML: SQL superset Proprietary: Distributed, Parallel Query Engine ObjectStore: 7.2 (July 2011) C++, Java, interoperable with .NET SQL subset (also has own object query language) Proprietary: Embedded database supporting efficient, distributed management of C++ and Java objects.
Database dumps are created from time to time (more info here) and are available for free download. As the page states, the best/most useful dump is the enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 ( dir ). Visiting the database dump progress site allows you to view the status of the current dump and easily browse to the downloads in it.