wp-download configuration for downloading just the English article text.

wpdownloadrc-gear11.txt

# wpdownloadrc.sample
#
# This file specifies which files should be downloaded from wikimedia
#
# Copy it to ~/.wpdownloadrc and adjust it to fit your needs.

[Configuration]

# base_url (string)
# -----------------
#   Base URL where wikipedia xml/sql dumps can be downloaded

base_url = http://dumps.wikimedia.org

[Templates]

# file_format (string)
# --------------------
#   File format string.
#
#   You can use the following placeholders, which will be expanded later on:
#
#   - ${langcode}   The language code, like de, en, ...
#   - ${date}       The dump creation date, like 20090710, ...
#   - $filename}   The actual filename, like pages_articles, pagelinks, ...
#   - ${filetype}   The filetype, like sql.gz, xml.bz2, ...
#
#   The given format string would for example expand to:
#
#       dewiki-20090710-redirect.sql.gz
#
file_format = ${langcode}wiki-${date}-${filename}.${filetype}

# language_dir_format
# -------------------
#   The format of the directories for each language within base_url.
#
#   You can use the following placeholders:
#
#   - ${langcode}   The language code, like de, en, ...
#
#   The given format string would for example expand to:
#
#       dewiki
language_dir_format = ${langcode}wiki

[Files]
# Specify which files to download

# pages_articles (boolean)
# ------------------------
#   pages_articles contains current versions of article content, and is the
#   archive most mirror sites will probably want.

pages-articles = True

# redirect (boolean)
# ------------------
#   Redirect list

redirect = False

# page (boolean)
# --------------
#   Base per-page data (id, title, old restrictions, etc).

page = False

# category (boolean)
# ------------------
#   Category information

category = False

# interwiki (boolean)
# -------------------
#   Set of defined interwiki prefixes and links for this wiki.

interwiki = False

# langlinks (boolean)
# -------------------
#   Wiki interlanguage link records.

langlinks = False

# externallinks (boolean)
# -----------------------
#   Wiki external URL link records.

externallinks = False

# templatelinks (boolean)
# -----------------------
#   Wiki template inclusion link records.

templatelinks = False

# imagelinks (boolean)
# --------------------
#   Wiki image usage records.

imagelinks = False

# categorylinks (boolean)
# -----------------------
#   Wiki category membership link records.

categorylinks = False

# pagelinks (boolean)
# -------------------
#   Wiki page-to-page link records.

pagelinks = False

# site_stats (boolean)
# --------------------
#   A few statistics such as the page count.

site_stats = False

[Filetypes]

pages-articles  = xml.bz2
redirect        = sql.gz
page            = sql.gz
category        = sql.gz
interwiki       = sql.gz
langlinks       = sql.gz
externallinks   = sql.gz
templatelinks   = sql.gz
imagelinks      = sql.gz
categorylinks   = sql.gz
pagelinks       = sql.gz
site_stats      = sql.gz

[Languages]
#aa = True
#ab = True
#af = True
#ak = True
#als = True
#am = True
#ang = True
#an = True
#arc = True
#ar = True
#arz = True
#ast = True
#as = True
#av = True
#ay = True
#az = True
#bar = True
#bat_smg = True
#ba = True
#bcl = True
#be = True
#be_x_old = True
#bg = True
#bh = True
#bi = True
#bm = True
#bn = True
#bo = True
#bpy = True
#br = True
#bs = True
#bug = True
#bxr = True
#ca = True
#cbk_zam = True
#cdo = True
#ceb = True
#ce = True
#cho = True
#chr = True
#ch = True
#chy = True
#co = True
#crh = True
#cr = True
#csb = True
#cs = True
#cu = True
#cv = True
#cy = True
#da = True
#de = True
#diq = True
#dsb = True
#dv = True
#dz = True
#ee = True
#el = True
#eml = True
en = True
#eo = True
#es = True
#et = True
#eu = True
#ext = True
#fa = True
#ff = True
#fiu_vro = True
#fi = True
#fj = True
#fo = True
#frp = True
#fr = True
#fur = True
#fy = True
#gan = True
#ga = True
#gd = True
#glk = True
#gl = True
#gn = True
#got = True
#gu = True
#gv = True
#hak = True
#ha = True
#haw = True
#he = True
#hif = True
#hi = True
#ho = True
#hr = True
#hsb = True
#ht = True
#hu = True
#hy = True
#hz = True
#ia = True
#id = True
#ie = True
#ig = True
#ii = True
#ik = True
#ilo = True
#io = True
#is = True
#it = True
#iu = True
#ja = True
#jbo = True
#jv = True
#kaa = True
#kab = True
#ka = True
#kg = True
#ki = True
#kj = True
#kk = True
#kl = True
#km = True
#kn = True
#ko = True
#kr = True
#ksh = True
#ks = True
#ku = True
#kv = True
#kw = True
#ky = True
#lad = True
#la = True
#lbe = True
#lb = True
#lg = True
#lij = True
#li = True
#lmo = True
#ln = True
#lo = True
#lt = True
#lv = True
#map_bms = True
#mdf = True
#mg = True
#mhr = True
#mh = True
#mi = True
#mk = True
#ml = True
#mn = True
#mo = True
#mr = True
#ms = True
#mt = True
#mus = True
#myv = True
#my = True
#mzn = True
#nah = True
#nap = True
#na = True
#nds_nl = True
#nds = True
#ne = True
#new = True
#ng = True
#nl = True
#nn = True
#nov = True
#no = True
#nrm = True
#nv = True
#ny = True
#oc = True
#om = True
#or = True
#os = True
#pag = True
#pam = True
#pap = True
#pa = True
#pdc = True
#pih = True
#pi = True
#pl = True
#pms = True
#pnt = True
#ps = True
#pt = True
#qu = True
#rm = True
#rmy = True
#rn = True
#roa_rup = True
#roa_tara = True
#ro = True
#ru = True
#rw = True
#sah = True
#sa = True
#scn = True
#sco = True
#sc = True
#sd = True
#se = True
#sg = True
#sh = True
#simple = True
#si = True
#sk = True
#sl = True
#sm = True
#sn = True
#so = True
#sq = True
#srn = True
#sr = True
#ss = True
#stq = True
#st = True
#su = True
#sv = True
#sw = True
#szl = True
#ta = True
#tet = True
#te = True
#tg = True
#th = True
#ti = True
#tk = True
#tl = True
#tn = True
#tokipona = True
#to = True
#tpi = True
#tr = True
#ts = True
#tt = True
#tum = True
#tw = True
#ty = True
#udm = True
#ug = True
#uk = True
#ur = True
#uz = True
#vec = True
#ve = True
#vi = True
#vls = True
#vo = True
#war = True
#wa = True
#wo = True
#wuu = True
#xal = True
#xh = True
#yi = True
#yo = True
#za = True
#zea = True
#zh_classical = True
#zh_min_nan = True
#zh = True
#zh_yue = True
#zu = True