John Fader wrote:
I took a brief look at the cur en.wikipedia dump, and
it would appear
that it's uncompressed, unlike the old versions which were bzip2
compressed. As the latter format seems to be around 70% of the size of
the uncompressed, shouldn't the new download page offer compressed
versions?
The new dumps are compressed with gzip as it's faster than bzip2 (though
bzip2 compresses better).
Your browser might be uncompressing it for you (naughty browser!)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)