Database dumps, smaller - pages-articles.xml should be avalaible in .7z as well
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	Jul 25 2007, 8:53 AM

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Author: adam1213

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pages-articles.xml.bz2 "Articles, templates, image descriptions, and primary meta-pages" ("the archive most mirror sites will probably want") is currently only avaliable in .bz2
It should be made available in .7z as well

pages-meta-history.xml.7z is 3.2 GB the .bz2 is 5 gigs
It would appear that .7z is 64% of the size of .bz2
So pages-articles.xml.bz2 could be aprox 1.7 gigs, instead of 2.7 gigs. This may even reduce some server load/bandwith.

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Severity: enhancement
URL: http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20070716/

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Reference: bz10693

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:52 PM

• bzimport added a project: Datasets-General-or-Unknown.

• bzimport set Reference to bz10693.

• bzimport created this task.Jul 25 2007, 8:53 AM

The extreme size savings for the history dumps are due to better compression of the multiple-revision runs. Current-version dumps compress to about the same size with .bz2 and .7z, but p7zip takes much much longer to run.

ArielGlenn moved this task from Backlog to Done on the Datasets-General-or-Unknown board.Jul 14 2016, 7:13 PM

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