[19:45:51] <Guestguestguest>	 Hello everyone, is this the place to ask questions about reading wikipedia/media dumps?
[19:50:00] <mutante>	 probably not, but ask anyways and we may be able to find the right place
[19:52:51] <Guestguestguest>	 Appreciate it. I've got the main dump file from may, that is, enwiki-20250501-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2, and am looking where to begin to read it. I've done a bit of work and looked into kiwix, but the app version only supports later versions of my OS. I'm not experienced enough in doing this stuff to manually parse and set up a searchable
[19:52:51] <Guestguestguest>	 library and was just wondering where to go. Seems like there's no publications on it lol. Maybe I'm blind though
[20:02:37] <mutante>	 Guestguestguest: maybe you can fix the Kiwix issue by using a VM with a new OS version?  but let me also find a better place to ask this, one sec
[20:03:36] <mutante>	 start at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
[20:04:10] <mutante>	 then see the "Getting help section there and the 2 mailing lists they mention there.
[20:04:22] <mutante>	 one is specifically for the XML dumps. so that is  https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/xmldatadumps-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
[20:04:54] <mutante>	 try subscribing to that list and then ask the question on the list. you should get responses from people specialized in that area
[20:05:13] <mutante>	 you should just have to fill out that simple form to get subscribed
[20:06:27] <Guestguestguest>	 Cheerrs. Appreciate it
[20:06:44] <mutante>	 you're welcome, hope it works out