XML troubles - GikiCLEF - Cross-language Geographic Information Retrieval from Wikipedia

In this page we provide information on the problems found with the XML version of the GikiCLEF collection, in order to both fully inform GikiCLEF participants and help other possible future users of it.

Our use of the WikiXML tool made us aware of the following problems

it was developed with and for the Wikipedia 2006 versions, so the current (2008) SQL dumps had to be converted to an older 2006 format

some of the pages became void during the conversion. Examples are the pages of Augsburg, contrasted with Berlin:
- original format Augsburg and Berlin
- XML result Augsburg and Berlin

finally, some pages, although apparently correct XML, do not get displayed in the browsers (tested with Firefox and IE), so before complaining that they are void, check by viewing the source of the page in your browser. Current suspect is a style with display:none.

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