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About Wikimedia Dumps
Wikimedia provides
public dumps
of our wikis' content and of related data such as search indexes and short URL mappings. The dumps are used by
researchers
and in
offline reader
projects, for
archiving
, for
bot editing
of the wikis, and for provision of the data in an easily
queryable
format, among other things. The dumps are
free to download and reuse
. As of 2026, dumps are produced
once per month
Note that the data dumps are
not backups, not consistent, and not complete
. They are still
useful
even
so
What we dump and when
Content and metadata
of Wikimedia projects
Cirrus search indexes
of Wikimedia projects
Wikidata entities
Short URL
mappings
Dump frequency
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Getting the dumps
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Mirrors
for downloading,
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download:
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Wikidata entities
download:
other dumps and datasets
Older dumps
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of a dump run
Using and re-using the dumps
XML/SQL dump format
Wikidata entity dumps formats:
JSON
and
RDF
Other dump
formats
Importing the dumps
Tools
for working with the dumps
License
for text content
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Help with common
import issues
Contributing
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besides
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Technical docs
for the dumps
Developer docs
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Contributing
to Wikimedia repos
Generating dumps
yourself
FAQ, further reading
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