added counting functionality to regex code

[mediawiki_dump_tools.git] / README.rst

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   git submodule init
   git submodule update
+
+
+Wikimedia dumps are usually in a compressed format such as 7z (most common),
+gz, or bz2. Wikiq uses your computer's compression software to read these
+files. Therefore wikiq depends on `7za`, `gzcat`, and `zcat`. 
+
+There are also a series of Python dependencies. You can install these using pip
+with a command like:
+
+  pip3 install mwbase mwreverts mwxml mwtypes mwcli mwdiffs mwpersistence