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+Very WIP: A parser / template expander for Mediawiki dumps.
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+The latest version of all mediawiki sites is about 1.1TB. Pull with:
+    curl -LO ftp://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/dumps/rsync-filelist-last-1-good.txt
+    rsync --partial --progress -h -r --files-from=rsync-filelist-last-1-good.txt  rsync://ftpmirror.your.org/wikimedia-dumps/ /mirror/wikimedia
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+Or find the specific file (i.e. `enwiki-20170520-pages-articles-multistream.xml`) from https://dumps.wikimedia.org/mirrors.html