Forum:Database dumps broken

I suspect that all database dumps offered on http://wikistats.wikia.com/dbdumps/dbdumps.html are broken and don't have the text of edits later than around July 25th. I know the current dump for the guildwars wiki is broken, and I've just looked at the current and the full pages dumps for the guestbook wiki (these are a LOT smaller than ours), and it's the same thing.

Having a current pages dump is a useful service for users who can code because you can just parse the XML file when you're looking for something a bit special on your wiki. For example, it helps me find out which of the 5000 beasts we document don't have screenshots yet (less than 2%). There is half a dozen helpful scripts that I like to routinely run on the dump, and I have ideas for more. But I can't keep current lists if I can't see what has been added during the last month, and if articles that have been edited in that time just disappear from the current pages dump. --◄mendel► 23:59, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * can you define "broken" ?--Uberfuzzy 09:18, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * broken, as in incomplete? I know the image dumps were last done more than a year ago. I know this because someone was asking for the set of images we created for the Traveller wiki. Now we have to get them the hard way (one page at a time). Tjoneslo 18:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Broken means that the metadata for the edits after July 29th is in the dump, but the text field in the XML has only the Wiki credits, but not the article text. See w:c:guildwars:GuildWiki:Wikia_staff_noticeboard for an example. I haven't checked the Aug 26/27 dumps yet, though; I will report back once I have. --◄mendel► 09:43, 28 August 2008 (UTC)


 * The dumps appear to be ok now, I've checked the August 26/27 dumps for three wikis and they look complete. Let's hope it stays that way. --◄mendel► 11:37, 28 August 2008 (UTC)