Last modified: 2014-11-17 09:21:32 UTC
The Wikidata JSON dump is currently located at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikidata/ This does not follow the common scheme used by all other dumps. For example, the daily (incremental) dumps are at the location http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/incr/wikidatawiki/ Here "incr" specifies is the type of dump, and "wikidatawiki" is the official Wikimedia site name of Wikidata.org. The current scheme uses a custom string name ("wikidata") that is not a site name, and it completely fails to specify the dump type. If more projects would generate JSON dumps (e.g., a future Wikimedia Commons installation of Wikibase), then this naming pattern will not work. I suggest to use a location like: http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/wikibase-json/wikidatawiki/ Or maybe use "json" if you find this specific enough. While doing this, the file names should also be made more descriptive (Bug 68792).
In addition to the above, there should be a timestamp-based sub-directory for each export (even if it would contain only one file for now). For example, the daily dumps are in directories like http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/incr/wikidatawiki/20140903/ Using the same structure will make it easier for consumers to find dump files without needing custom code for each type of dump (a program that checks the Web to find out for which dates there are dumps could use the same code for all types of "other" dumps). Moreover, it might be good to have a directory per dump to organise multiple files in the future (md5 sum, several types of compression [Bug 68793], dump status).
