Yeah, but they're working on incremental updates, so this should make the "from scratch" part much easier. You can look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Increm

Yeah, but they're working on incremental updates, so this should make the "from scratch" part much easier. You can look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Incremental_dumps https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Incremental_dumps and http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2013-August/000915.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2013-Aug... if you're interested.