Wikimedia Downloads
Wikimedia Downloads
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please note that we have rate limited downloaders and we are capping the number of per-ip connections to 3. This will
help to ensure that everyone can access the files with reasonable download times. Clients that try to evade these limits
may be blocked. Our mirror sites do not have this cap.
Data downloads
MediaWiki Content File Exports
A complete copy of all public Wikimedia wikis, in the form of wikitext source and metadata embedded in XML.
Database backup dumps
A complete copy of all public Wikimedia wikis, in the form of wikitext source and metadata embedded in XML (
Note: These XML dumps are deprecated, please use
MediaWiki Content File Exports
instead
). A number of raw database tables in SQL form are also available.
These snapshots are provided monthly. If you are a regular user of these dumps, please consider subscribing to
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for regular updates.
Mirror Sites of the XML dumps provided above
Check the
complete list
Static HTML dumps
A copy of all pages from all Wikipedia wikis, in HTML form.
These are currently not running, but
Wikimedia Enterprise HTML dumps
are provided for some wikis.
Backup dumps of wikis which no longer exist
A complete copy of selected Wikimedia wikis which no longer exist and so which are no longer available via the main database backup dump page. This includes, in particular, the Sept. 11 wiki.
Analytics data files
Pageview, Mediacount, Unique, and other stats.
Other files
Image tarballs, survey data and other items.
Kiwix files
Static dumps of wiki projects in OpenZim format
Software downloads
MediaWiki
MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for
use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the
non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis.
Legal
App Guidelines
Guidelines for developers
on how to properly reuse Wikimedia data, trademarks, and content.
Copyright licensing
licensing information
for these dumps.
The
policy
for Wikimedia Foundation websites.
The
for Wikimedia Foundation websites.
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