On 11/27/05, candy <ccanddyy(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I imported the english database dump
(pages_current.xml.bz2) in
mediawiki 1.5 and it worked fine. Does the same dump works well with
mediawiki 1.4.5 as well. I am a bit worried as the database schema of
the 2 mediawikis are different.
The import process converts the XML to whatever format your version
needs on the back end. This (among other reasons) is why we only
provide the XML dump for this data now.
Another small problem. If you go to the following
url:
http://download.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/
the full wikipedia page dump(pages_full.xml.bz2) seems to have a size of
14.1 GB but when I download it its size is only 2GB. Any clue what went
wrong?
Sounds like the software you used to download only supports files as
large as two gigs.
In Linux I use wget, if you run windows I'm not sure what to suggest.