The generated slob file of 20230801 is 7.3GB instead of 8.3GB of the 20230701 one. The content of dewiki-20230701 was
blob count: 3023063
ref count: 5039666
whilst the content of dewiki-20230801 is
blob count: 2888856
ref count: 4752407
Same compression and blob size of course.
I do not know the reason of this change, but I guess Wikipedia cleaned up some articles. if anybody has a clue, please let me know.
Markus