Thanks Brion, very neat. One more question: it would be nice if each project also wrote a line to a global log that is publicly accessable. People could monitor this to detect that a dump has started and how much progress has been made. E.g. at http://download.wikimedia.org/dumpprogress.txt 2005-Sep-03 12:18:30 special commons / completed normally 2005-Sep-03 12:27:10 special sources / completed normally 2005-Sep-03 12:39:12 wikiquote ab / completed normally 2005-Sep-03 12:39:23 wikiquote ac / completed normally 2005-Sep-03 12:40:23 wikiquote ae Cheers, Erik Zachte