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Frederic Malo

13 Jan 2004 13 Jan '04

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Frederic Malo

20 Jan 20 Jan

5 a.m.

Hello, does anyone know how I can download the english old table ? thank you! Frederic _____ De : wikipedia-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] De la part de Frederic Malo Envoyé : mardi 13 janvier 2004 15:28 À : wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org Objet : [Wikipedia-l] trouble with gzip2 downloads Hello, Trying to install wikipedia on my W2K3 server, I had no trouble with french old and current gzip2 files and with current english file. Last week, I've downloaded the two xaa.txt and xab.txt for the old_table from http://download.wikimedia.org/ . Yesterday, I've downloaded the big http://download.wikimedia.org/cgi-bin/old_table.sql.bz2.pl . All these three bzip2 files (I suppose that in fact, xaa.txt and xab.txt are bzip2 archive) are corrupted when I try to uncompress with winzip, 7-zip, or bzip2.exe. Where and/or how can I download the english old table ? Perhaps this version http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/en/20040109_old_table.sql.bz2 should work, but access is denied. Thank you for all this work and best regards, Frederic

Brion Vibber

5:05 a.m.

On Jan 19, 2004, at 12:00, Frederic Malo wrote:

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does anyone know how I can download the english old table ?

Please wait until the current backup is done (should be within a day), I'll make a split version available. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Frederic Malo

5:16 a.m.

Thanks Brion ! -----Message d'origine----- De : wikipedia-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] De la part de Brion Vibber Envoyé : lundi 19 janvier 2004 21:06 À : wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org Objet : Re: [Wikipedia-l] trouble with gzip2 downloads On Jan 19, 2004, at 12:00, Frederic Malo wrote:

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does anyone know how I can download the english old table ?

Please wait until the current backup is done (should be within a day), I'll make a split version available. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Brion Vibber

6:52 p.m.

Okay, new backup is now available. It says it's three days old because it took so long to run on the slow machine. :P Temporarily at: http://susan.bomis.com/ The English Wikipedia old revisions table is available in two parts (xaa, xab) to get around the 2GB-download problem with Apache on a 32-bit server. Also -- all wikis will go OFFLINE shortly for transferring the database back to geoffrin, the fast server, which seems to be happy with a lobotomy down to 2GB of ram. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Frederic Malo

22 Jan 22 Jan

9:57 a.m.

Thanks Brion! By the way, does anybody know a good stitching software (windows) ? Thank you for all! Frederic -----Message d'origine----- De : wikipedia-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] De la part de Brion Vibber Envoyé : mardi 20 janvier 2004 10:52 À : wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org Objet : Re: [Wikipedia-l] trouble with gzip2 downloads Okay, new backup is now available. It says it's three days old because it took so long to run on the slow machine. :P Temporarily at: http://susan.bomis.com/ The English Wikipedia old revisions table is available in two parts (xaa, xab) to get around the 2GB-download problem with Apache on a 32-bit server. Also -- all wikis will go OFFLINE shortly for transferring the database back to geoffrin, the fast server, which seems to be happy with a lobotomy down to 2GB of ram. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

Carl Witty

11:47 a.m.

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:57, Frederic Malo wrote:

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Thanks Brion! By the way, does anybody know a good stitching software (windows) ?

The first thing I would try is the command-line "copy" command: start up a command prompt, and type: copy /b xaa+xab 20040117_old_table.sql.bz2 My only question is whether this works on 2gb files; I've never tried it on really large files, but I don't know any reason it wouldn't work. (The "/b" says to use binary mode; without it, copy in file-concatenation mode defaults to ASCII, which means it stops copying at the first Control-Z character.) Carl Witty

Frederic Malo

23 Jan 23 Jan

8:57 p.m.

Hello, Thank you Carl, but your idea seems not working with huge files. But I found a solution that works : "type xab.txt >> xaa.txt" I could unzip the bz2 final file without trouble. Great! Thanks for your help! Frederic -----Message d'origine----- De : wikipedia-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] De la part de Carl Witty Envoyé : jeudi 22 janvier 2004 03:29 À : wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org Objet : RE: [Wikipedia-l] trouble with gzip2 downloads On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:57, Frederic Malo wrote:

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Thanks Brion! By the way, does anybody know a good stitching software (windows) ?

Frederic Malo

9:03 p.m.

New subject: How to update wikipedia database

Hello, I have not found any wiki metapage about this subject. What is the process to update an uploaded wikipedia database ? Do we have to upload each week the old and current tables ? How is managed the insertion of current rows into the old table ? What are the rules ? What is happening if we forgot to update the database one time or several times ? Thank you again, Frederic

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