Get Yer Free Wikipedia File Dump

In case you've been too lazy to write your own scraper script here's a Wikipedia XML Dump. Something tells me this is not a good thing ...

wikipedia is only about a 35 Gig download - don't ask why I know that ;)

By oilman at Nov 21 2005 - 20:34

You could grab it, mix it up random style to avoid dupes and still be more accurate than the original. Win/win.

By NFFC at Nov 21 2005 - 20:37

This has been available for quite some time, what's the news?

By hdpt00 at Nov 21 2005 - 21:36

...when there's a perfectly good version online? {/n00b?}

By Wit at Nov 21 2005 - 21:42

mix it up random style to avoid dupes and still be more accurate than the original

Ouch!

By rcjordan at Nov 21 2005 - 22:21

This has been available for ages. Here is a list of sites using the data
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/GFDL_Compliance

Oh and the mysql dump takes something like 2 days to import.

By eadz at Nov 22 2005 - 00:12