diff --git a/mappings/collectExtraction.sh b/mappings/collectExtraction.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 4baa1190fa9217dc5e790e7cb29eacd04972fd11..c51c7ce3f30fe73582c3417eed5cdecff971a18f
--- a/mappings/collectExtraction.sh
+++ b/mappings/collectExtraction.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ set -e
 BASEDIR="/data/extraction/wikidumps/"
 
 #databus-maven-plugin project, containing release pom
-DATABUSMVNPOMDIR="/data/extraction/databus-maven-plugin/dbpedia/generic"
+DATABUSMVNPOMDIR="/data/extraction/databus-maven-plugin/dbpedia/mappings"
 
 #explicit databus version or empty for all
 DUMPDATE=
diff --git a/mappings/download.mappings.properties b/mappings/download.mappings.properties
index b67a1aaeb990b04d04aad406854c944857f51f44..dff4b47ae850946a5378e47edd290b418c3fb204 100644
--- a/mappings/download.mappings.properties
+++ b/mappings/download.mappings.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Default download server. It lists mirrors which may be faster.
-base-url=https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
+base-url=http://dumps.wikimedia.your.org/
 
 # the source file name
 # should be the same as in universal.properties
@@ -16,4 +16,4 @@ retry-max=5
 retry-millis=10000
 
 #for specific dump dates (e.g. 20170101) if empty: the most recent dump-date is used
-dump-date=
\ No newline at end of file
+dump-date=
diff --git a/mappings/mappings-release.sh b/mappings/mappings-release.sh
index c4bd76655621dbcb9ecbbedf65bb22117cd5fbe1..1f9c4468c53423844df8725ff8d790a01a8fa718 100755
--- a/mappings/mappings-release.sh
+++ b/mappings/mappings-release.sh
@@ -16,12 +16,6 @@ BASEDIR="/data/extraction/wikidumps";
 #https://github.com/dbpedia/databus-maven-plugin/blob/master/dbpedia/mappings/pom.xml
 DATABUSMAVENPOMDIR="/data/extraction/databus-maven-plugin/dbpedia/mappings";
 
-#override release pom.xml properties
-RELEASEPUBLISHER="https://vehnem.github.io/webid.ttl#this";
-RELEASEPACKAGEDIR="/data/extraction/release";
-RELEASEDOWNLOADURL="http://dbpedia-mappings.tib.eu/release";
-RELEASELABELPREFIX="(pre-release)"
-RELEASECOMMENTPREFIX="(MARVIN is the DBpedia bot, that runs the DBpedia Information Extraction Framework (DIEF) and releases the data as is, i.e. unparsed, unsorted, not redirected for debugging the software. After its releases, data is cleaned and persisted under the dbpedia account.)"
 
 #logging directory
 LOGS="/data/extraction/logs/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)";
@@ -88,11 +82,19 @@ setNewVersion() {
 }
 
 deployRelease() {
+
+#override release pom.xml properties
+RELEASEPUBLISHER="https://vehnem.github.io/webid.ttl#this";
+RELEASEPACKAGEDIR="/data/extraction/release/\${project.groupId}/\${project.artifactId}"
+RELEASEDOWNLOADURL="http://dbpedia-mappings.tib.eu/release/\${project.groupId}/\${project.artifactId}/\${project.version}/";
+RELEASELABELPREFIX="(pre-release)"
+RELEASECOMMENTPREFIX="(MARVIN is the DBpedia bot, that runs the DBpedia Information Extraction Framework (DIEF) and releases the data as is, i.e. unparsed, unsorted, not redirected for debugging the software. After its releases, data is cleaned and persisted under the dbpedia account.)"
+
     cd $DATABUSMAVENPOMDIR;
     mvn deploy \
 	-Ddatabus.publisher="$RELEASEPUBLISHER" \
-	-Ddatabus.packageDirectory="$RELEASEPACKAGEDIR/\${project.groupId}/\${project.artifactId}" \
-	-Ddatabus.downloadUrlPath="$RELEASEDOWNLOADURL/\${project.groupId}/\${project.artifactId}/\${project.version}" \
+	-Ddatabus.packageDirectory="$RELEASEPACKAGEDIR" \
+	-Ddatabus.downloadUrlPath="$RELEASEDOWNLOADURL" \
 	-Ddatabus.labelPrefix="$RELEASELABELPREFIX" \
 	-Ddatabus.commentPrefix="$RELEASECOMMENTPREFIX";
 }
@@ -138,6 +140,6 @@ main() {
     compressLogs;
 }
 
-if [ ! -f "$SCRIPTROOT/generic-release.pid" ]; then
-        (execWithLogging main; rm "$SCRIPTROOT/generic-release.pid") & echo $! > "$SCRIPTROOT/generic-release.pid"
+if [ ! -f "$SCRIPTROOT/mappings-release.pid" ]; then
+        (execWithLogging main; rm "$SCRIPTROOT/mappings-release.pid") & echo $! > "$SCRIPTROOT/mappings-release.pid"
 fi