Full Version: Wikipedia database dumps ... no more?
Has anyone noticed that the last complete Wikipedia database dump in about six months has been taken offline? What are they hiding now?
QUOTE(gomi @ Thu 5th April 2007, 8:54pm) 
Has anyone noticed that the last complete Wikipedia database dump in about six months has been taken offline? What are they hiding now?
Someone should mirror all complete and text only dumps somewhere, just for the sake of future analysis by historians.
your right in that the february dump is offline... your wrong in that they are cancelled forever...
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/
Progress failed on this dump:
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20070401/
This dump is in progress:
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20070402/
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/
Progress failed on this dump:
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20070401/
This dump is in progress:
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20070402/
All of the previous dumps are offline, too. Also, the complete dumps almost always fail, so it may be months before a complete dump is available.
The February dump was there, I just hadn't gotten around to downloading it. Someone removed it for a reason.
The February dump was there, I just hadn't gotten around to downloading it. Someone removed it for a reason.
QUOTE(gomi @ Thu 5th April 2007, 10:33pm)
All of the previous dumps are offline, too. Also, the complete dumps almost always fail, so it may be months before a complete dump is available.
The February dump was there, I just hadn't gotten around to downloading it. Someone removed it for a reason.
Essjay?
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