xmlformat.md

Format of Wiki-dump XML files

All XML dump files of the format enwiki-20200101-pages-meta-history1.xml-pXXXpXXX have the following structure, with lines that are ... being repetitive or omitted content.

You can view the edit history for the first listed page in this example here and the second page here (15:00, February 25, 2002)

<mediawiki xmlns="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10/ http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10.xsd"
    version="0.10" xml:lang="en">
    <siteinfo>
        <sitename>Wikipedia</sitename>
        <dbname>enwiki</dbname>
        <base>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</base>
        <generator>MediaWiki 1.35.0-wmf.11</generator>
        <case>first-letter</case>
        <namespaces>
            <namespace key="-2" case="first-letter">Media</namespace>
            <namespace key="-1" case="first-letter">Special</namespace>
            <namespace key="0" case="first-letter" />
            <namespace key="1" case="first-letter">Talk</namespace>
            <namespace key="2" case="first-letter">User</namespace>
            <namespace key="3" case="first-letter">User talk</namespace>
            ...
            <namespace key="2303" case="case-sensitive">Gadget
                definition talk</namespace>
        </namespaces>
    </siteinfo>
    <page>
        <title>AccessibleComputing</title>
        <ns>0</ns>
        <id>10</id>
        <redirect title="Computer accessibility" />
        <revision>
            <id>233192</id>
            <timestamp>2001-01-21T02:12:21Z</timestamp>
            <contributor>
                <username>RoseParks</username>
                <id>99</id>
            </contributor>
            <comment>*</comment>
            <model>wikitext</model>
            <format>text/x-wiki</format>
            <text xml:space="preserve">This subject covers

* AssistiveTechnology

* AccessibleSoftware

* AccessibleWeb

* LegalIssuesInAccessibleComputing

            </text>
            <sha1>8kul9tlwjm9oxgvqzbwuegt9b2830vw</sha1>
        </revision>
        <revision>
            <id>862220</id>
            <parentid>233192</parentid>
            <timestamp>2002-02-25T15:43:11Z</timestamp>
            <contributor>
                <username>Conversion script</username>
                <id>1226483</id>
            </contributor>
            <minor />
            <comment>Automated conversion</comment>
            <model>wikitext</model>
            <format>text/x-wiki</format>
            <text xml:space="preserve">#REDIRECT [[Accessible Computing]]
            </text>
            <sha1>i8pwco22fwt12yp12x29wc065ded2bh</sha1>
        </revision>
        <revision>
            ...
        </revision>
        ...
        <revision>
            <id>854851586</id>
            <parentid>834079434</parentid>
            <timestamp>2018-08-14T06:47:24Z</timestamp>
            <contributor>
                <username>Godsy</username>
                <id>23257138</id>
            </contributor>
            <comment>remove from category for seeking instructions on rcats</comment>
            <model>wikitext</model>
            <format>text/x-wiki</format>
            <text xml:space="preserve">#REDIRECT [[Computer accessibility]]
                {{R from move}}
                {{R from CamelCase}}
                {{R unprintworthy}}</text>
            <sha1>42l0cvblwtb4nnupxm6wo000d27t6kf</sha1>
        </revision>
    </page>
    <page>
        <title>Anarchism</title>
        <ns>0</ns>
        <id>12</id>
        <revision>
            <id>18201</id>
            <parentid>332419362</parentid>
            <timestamp>2002-02-25T15:00:22Z</timestamp>
            <contributor>
                <username>Conversion script</username>
                <id>12  26483</id>
            </contributor>
            <minor />
            <comment>Automated conversion</comment>
            <model>wikitext</model>
            <format>text/x-wiki</format>
            <text xml:space="preserve">''Anarchism'' is the political theory that advocates the abolition of all forms of government. The word anarchism derives from Greek roots &lt;i&gt;an&lt;/i&gt; (no) and &lt;i&gt;archos&lt;/i&gt; (ruler).
            ...
            </text>
            <sha1>07sqam7073877kptdznnip3viznphpy</sha1>
        </revision>
        <revision>
        ...
        </revision>
        ...
    </page>
    ...
</mediawiki>