User talk:Bluemoose/DataBaseSearchTool
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)
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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. Fuhghettaboutit 16:53, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
- I am more than happy to do any searches for you, just let me know. Martin 17:14, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
- 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. Fuhghettaboutit 16:53, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
- 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)