Bug #49979 for Parse-MediaWikiDump: redirect in newer Wikipedia dumps

Thu Sep 24 13:25:00 2009 amir.aharoni [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:

redirect in newer Wikipedia dumps

I tried to use Parse::MediaWikiDump 0.93 to process a dump of Wikipedia that was created in September 2009 (from http://download.wikimedia.org/ ). It failed with this error: "fatal error - no match for element redirect". Parse::MediaWikiDump 0.93 does work with Wikipedia dumps from July 2009. It seems to me that newer dumps have a <redirect /> element in every redirect page and older dumps do not, but i might be wrong. You can try it, for example, with the cvwiki dump, which is rather small (6MB download).

Thu Sep 24 13:31:40 2009 triddle [...] cpan.org - Taken

Thu Sep 24 13:32:31 2009 triddle [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Thank you for the bug report. Until this is resolved I think you'll find that 0.92 will work ok for you. If not please let me know. Tyler

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Fri Sep 25 04:37:55 2009 amir.aharoni [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

On Thu Sep 24 13:32:31 2009, TRIDDLE wrote: Show quoted text

> Thank you for the bug report. > > Until this is resolved I think you'll find that 0.92 will work ok for > you. If not please let me know.

Thanks for the very quick reply. With 0.92 i get this: fatal error - no match for element redirect at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Parse/MediaWikiDump/XML.pm line 126. (in cleanup) fatal error - no match for element mediawiki at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Parse/MediaWikiDump/XML.pm line 126.

Sun Sep 27 04:28:42 2009 SCOTT [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

FYI - I had the same issue, but 0.91 does not have the problem. So just download that and use it until it is fixed. Scott

Mon Sep 28 23:35:04 2009 triddle [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I changed the parser so it allows unknown tags through and verified that cvwiki-20090924- pages-articles.xml can be run all the way through version 0.94. Thanks for the bug and update and please add additional information to this ticket if the bug remains. I just uploaded 0.94 to CPAN so it may take a few days before it's available on the mirrors. I've attached it to the ticket just for completeness.

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Mon Sep 28 23:35:06 2009 triddle [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'