[WikiEN-l] current categories and subcategories

Fri Sep 8 16:44:57 UTC 2006

On 9/7/06, karen marcelo <karen at radarnetworks.com> wrote:
> hi all
>
> i just joined this list so i'm not sure if this is the correct forum to
> ask this, but how do i get a master list of
> all wikipedia categories and sub-categories? i looked a the database
> download page and took a peek at
> pages_articles.xml and see that one can parse out Categories from the
> mediawiki tags embedded in the
> text. but is there some other dump with all the categories (even ones
> that may not have articles) as well as their
> subcategories available somewhere?
>
> apologies in advance if this was the wrong list to post this question
> to, but if someone could direct me to the right one
> it would be most appreciated.
>
> thanks much!

Isn't one of the dumps offered something like "categorylinks"?

~maru