Kienan Knight-Boehm
See you space cowboy...
(Or, If Sisyphus Had Broadband)
Kienan Knight-Boehm
RCOS // 10.10.14 // kienankb.com
You might not want to,
but believe me,
you can.
The BZIP2 file
is 10.6GB total.
The single XML file--
~14.75 million articles*--
is 46GB.
*14,753,874 exactly.
...oh that's adorable.
<mediawiki xml:lang="en">
<page>
<title>Page title</title>
<restrictions>edit=sysop:move=sysop</restrictions>
<revision>
<timestamp>2001-01-15T13:15:00Z</timestamp>
<contributor><username>Foobar</username></contributor>
<comment>I have just one thing to say!</comment>
<text>A bunch of [[text]] here.</text>
<minor />
</revision>
<revision>
<timestamp>2001-01-15T13:10:27Z</timestamp>
<contributor><ip>10.0.0.2</ip></contributor>
<comment>new!</comment>
<text>An earlier [[revision]].</text>
</revision>
</page>
</mediawiki>
Python XML parsing? Nah.
(But, seriously, screw DOS artifacts.)
(Just screw 'em.)
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Major Moorthy and Super G
RCOS
Special thanks: DOS artifact guy
By Kienan Knight-Boehm
"Wait--but why would you download Wikipedia?" "No really, but why?"