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What is the template of Wiktionary in .bz2 dump file?

I downloaded the file frwiktionary-20210401-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 from here. It's mentioned that this file contains

Articles, templates, media/file descriptions, and primary meta-pages, in multiple bz2 streams, 100 pages per stream.

  1. What is the template mentioned here? Is it the template to convert wikitext to html?

  2. I tried opening the file with UltraEdit and got, for example,

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and

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I could not see any template in this file.

Could you please elaborate on these 2 issues?

Solution

  • "Template" in this sense refers to MediaWiki templates. Pages in the Template namespace can be transcluded into other pages using double curly brackets, like {{foobar}}.

    In the last screenshot in the question, es-phrase, lb, cot and uxi are templates.