David Reynolds wrote:
Since the archives are fairly opaque on the subject,
does anyone know if
it's possible to spider the database dumps offline through the use of
WikiFilter? Or do you have to be running the full MediaWiki software
locally?
I don't know what WikiFilter is so I couldn't say what it can or can't do.
But you certainly are free to process the dumps however you like; one
thing you can do with them is import them into a MediaWiki instance, but
that's just one thing.
See
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps for some more information
on the dumps we provide and the format.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)