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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Fuhghettaboutit (talk | contribs) at 16:53, 28 January 2006 (formatting). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Hey Bluemoose. It might be useful for the not so technical among us to give some instructions for the following problem I encountered: First I downloaded the .NETframework then your program. When I types my first inquiry into your program I get the message:

"Please open up an "Articles" XML data-dump file from the file menu See the About menu for where to download this file".

So I followed these instructions, but when I clicked on "open XML dump" I got a new screen with a file name written in "current or articles XML file" and my only options are "open" or "cancel". When I click on open I get the error message: current or articles XML file does not exist. I have no idea what to do from here. Fuhghettaboutit 01:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The file you want is here, the one called pages-articles.xml.bz2, I havent linked to that page directly in the program because when a newer dump is available it will be on a different page. thanks Martin 09:46, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry Bluemoose, but still bewildered. I understand now to some extent--the dump has all text files on wikipedia as of a certain date that gets redumped periodically as Wikipedia changes(?), but I still don't know how to access that file with your program. When I try to access the XML file, it looks in my computer--must I download the 997 MB file to my computer in order to do this? I need to be spoonfed here. Thanks for any help. Fuhghettaboutit 15:35, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
OK, download the 997MB file to your computer, extract it (it is a .bz2 file which is just like a normal .zip file) with a program like winzip or winrar, then start up the database search tool and "open" the extracted file which will be called enwiki-20060125-pages-articles.xml then you are ready to start searching. hope that helps Martin 16:33, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It does indeed. Thank you. In fact, that's the conclusion I had sort of reached above, but I was having trouble swallowing the fact that I needed to downloaded almost 1,000 MB to my computer first. Thanks again.
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