Downloaded Files
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- enwiki\_content/enwiki-20220420-pages-articles-*.xml.gz
Obtained via https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html (site suggests downloading from a mirror).
Contains text content and metadata for pages in English Wikipedia (current revision only, excludes talk pages).
Some file content and format information was available from
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps/What%27s_available_for_download.
- enwiki-20220420-page.sql.gz
Obtained like above. Contains page-table information including page id, namespace, title, etc.
Format information was found at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_table.
- enwiki-20220420-redirect.sql.gz
Obtained like above. Contains page-redirection info.
Format information was found at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps/What%27s_available_for_download.
Generated Files
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- enwiki\_content/enwiki-*.xml and enwiki-*.sql
Uncompressed versions of downloaded files.
- enwikiData.db
An sqlite database representing data from the enwiki dump files.
Generation:
1 Install python, and packages mwsql, mwxml, and mwparsefromhell. Example:
1 On Ubuntu, install python3, python3-pip, and python3-venv via `apt-get update; apt-get ...`.
2 Create a virtual environment in which to install packages via `python3 -m venv .venv`.
3 Activate the virtual environment via `source .venv/bin/activate`.
4 Install mwsql, mwxml, and mwparsefromhell via `pip install mwsql mwxml mwparsefromhell`.
2 Run genPageData.py (still under the virtual environment), which creates the database,
reads from the page dump, and creates a 'pages' table.
3 Run genRedirectData.py, which creates a 'redirects' table, using information in the redirects dump,
and page ids from the 'pages' table.
4 Run genDescData.py, which reads the page-content xml dumps, and the 'pages' and 'redirects' tables,
and associates page ids with (potentially redirect-resolved) pages, and attempts to parse some
wikitext within those pages to obtain the first descriptive paragraph, with markup removed.
- .venv
Provides a python virtual environment for packages needed to generate data.