wp-download is a cumbersome task to administer local Wikipedia databases, especially if you need access to multiple language versions of Wikipedia.
With wp-download you can automatically download the newest database dumps for all language edition you want:
$ wp-download --resume -v /path/to/wikipedia/dumps
Read configuration from: '/home/foobar/.wpdownloadrc'
Set timeout to 30s
Processing language: sw
Creating directory: /path/to/wikipedia/dumps/sw/20090821
Latest dump for (sw) is from Friday 21 August 2009
Skip: swwiki-20090821-redirect.sql.gz
Skip: swwiki-20090821-category.sql.gz
Resume: swwiki-20090821-pages-articles.xml.bz2
swwiki-20090821-pages-articles.xml.bz2 [****] 100% Time: 00:00:00 3.19 M/s
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