Sounds like a bad character escaping. Adding to my list to test when I get an updated data set downloaded on my big test comp...

The jar from http://download.wikimedia.org/tools/ is out of sync with trunk. Try to load the source from trunk and run with that.

See r12972 for the escaping fix.

Vasile Ceteras: Is this still an issue if you load the source from trunk?

vasile.ceteras wrote:

I'm really sorry, but I'm not a Java developer, so I couldn't compile the source.
I've got the svn checkout, but ant can't compile it.

I'm running Centos 6, 64bit.

svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/mwdumper/
...
Checked out revision 115751.

cd mwdumper
ant

...
compile:

[javac] Compiling 39 source files to /home/vceteras/Downloads/mwdumper/mwdumper/bin
[javac] /home/vceteras/Downloads/mwdumper/mwdumper/src/org/mediawiki/dumper/gui/DumperGui.java:253: annotations are not supported in -source 1.4
[javac] (use -source 5 or higher to enable annotations)

...

I edit build.xml at line 19: source="1.5"' and line 20 target="1.5" .

Now I get this at the end: "[javac] 100 errors" .
Lots of packages do not exist, and two "cannot find symbol" errors.

I apologise for the late answer, I've been terribly busy and couldn't get any of my co-workers to help either.

It would be really great if someone could compile mwdumper for everyone who wants to use it without learning java.