[WikiEN-l] Putting some perspective on the end of Wikipedia

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/6 Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com>:
> On 9/5/09, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a machine readable version of the protection log anywhere?
>>
>
> You could probably use the MediaWiki API to do this:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
>
> Alternatively find some of the following regular reports easy to parse:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports

I've just found that there is a database dump of all the logs. It is
nearly a gig for enwiki, but I can manage that. I'm downloading it now
and will try and get some useful stats out of it.