I discussed this in IRC, but I think we should make whether it contains user
database or not clearer. People just seem to be clicking "full dump" without
actually knowing the content. Maybe a through description about what each
dumps contain?
-- james
For several months we've had a version of the dump available with discussion
and
user pages excluded, which is recommended for mirror-type usage.
Please see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
Note that we *ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT* stop producing dumps that do include those
pages. They **MUST** be available for complete distributed backup of data and
other legitimate usage. As always, don't include anything on Wikipedia that you
wouldn't ever want to see copied.
-- brion vibber (brion <at>
pobox.com)