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As of v2.6.3, XOWA also provides basic support for building wikidata from the JSON dump. This support was added for the following reasons:
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<b>Current delay in XML dumps</b>: The last good wikidata XML dump was 2+ months old due to problems with dump generation. See: <ahref="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98585"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98585</a>
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<b>JSON dumps recommended</b>: Wikidata seems to prefer using the JSON dump over the XML dump. See: <ahref="http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download"rel="nofollow"class="external free">http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_download</a>
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<b>JSON dumps are more frequent</b>: The JSON dumps have been dumping regularly on a weekly basis. In contrast the XML dumps take 3 - 4 weeks.
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Despite these reasons, there are limitations to the JSON dump.
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<b>Non-JSON pages not available</b>: The JSON dump doesn't provide other pages, such as the Main Page or MediaWiki pages. Only pages in the main and property namespaces are available. This is by design. See: <ahref="https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006441.html"rel="nofollow"class="external free">https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006441.html</a>
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<b>Page metadata not available</b> : Certain properties are not available, such as page_id and last_modified. XOWA provides substitutes for these values, but they will not match the Wikimedia version
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