Dumps/WikidataDumps

This page is about the Wikidata entity dumps. For information about the xml/sql dumps, please see Dumps/XML-SQL Dumps.

These dumps currently run once a week.

The dump scripts attempt to retry failures up to a maximum number of retries. After that maximum, failures are reported by email to ops-dumps@wikimedia.org.

Issues with wikidata entity dumps should be filed under the Dumps-generation project in Phabricator, as well as Wikidata.

Because wikidata grows so quickly, over a period of a few months these dumps can get slow to finish. It's a bad idea to have one week's jobs still going when the next week's starts. Several jobs are run in parallel; this number could theoretically be increased, but the dbas should approve first, since this means more concurrent requests to the database.

The dump scripts are in our operations/dumps repository and references to them can be identified via code search.