On 17 May 2012 13:32, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > Because they are XML dumps, mainly. The data in the WMF database is > compressed in a format which can be easily randomly accessed.
It's a dump. It's not supposed to be randomly accessed. We're talking about archives, not mirrors. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
