When you install this from git, you will need to first clone the repository::

  git clone git://projects.mako.cc/mediawiki_dump_tools

From within the repository working directory, initiatlize and set up the
submodule like::

  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