As I understand it, the goal being discussed is to make a list of
redirects with long edit histories. This does not require downloading
the full text of each revision. It only requires the contents of the
'revision' and 'page' database tables, both of which are available in
the database dumps:
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20080312/enwiki-20080312-stub-meta-his…
(6.7gb)
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20080312/enwiki-20080312-page.sql.gz (385 MB)
- Carl