[WikiEN-l] Actual Problems with WP:V

[Carl Beckhorn]

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-history.xml.gz (6.7gb)
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20080312/enwiki-20080312-page.sql.gz (385 MB)

- Carl