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Is there a way to download a list of all Wikipedia categories?

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You can download the Wikpedia categories from here. Here is the latest categories in SQL format.

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This is really a general MediaWiki question, not a Wikipedia question, since there's nothing special about Wikipedia in this regard.

There is a stable, documented, way to obtain a list of all categories from a MediaWiki server. It is documented in the MediaWiki API documentation. You simply need to write, or obtain, a tool that makes use of this protocol.

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  • This is not "general MediaWiki question", because: 1) MediaWik does not contains Wikipedia's content; 2) Wikipedia users has no access to DB, only to dumps. – AndriuZ Jul 13 '18 at 13:16
  • @AndriuZ You don't understand. MediaWiki is software, not content. The MediaWiki API is exposed by sites like Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and others. – Aleksandr Dubinsky Mar 30 '19 at 11:49
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Use the API. A list of API clients is here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code

For example, using the command-line wikiget: 

./wikiget.awk -z wiktionary -c "Spanish proper nouns" > output.txt
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