For example using this Wikipedia dump:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=lebron%20james&rvprop=content&redirects=t
I know the question is old, but I was searching for a library that parses wikipedia xml dump. However, the suggested libraries, wikidump and mwlib, don't offer many code documentation. Then, I found Mediwiki-utilities, which has some code documentation in: http://pythonhosted.org/mediawiki-utilities/.