Zeyi wrote:
Hi,
Firstly, congratulations for this! as i Know it has taken for a long time!
and May I ask a small question: what difference between current dump and
history dump. I know current one only includes current edits, and history
one has all edits as introduction said.
You have explained the difference perfectly :)
More specifically, how different
shows on one article? Can anyone explain it in detail, please?
It doesn't "show" the article. It's just a really really large bunch of
wikitext separated by xml tags.
It is shown by a tool. If you just wwant to read the articles, you don't
need histories.
Additionally, why all the statistics of Wikipedia only
use history dump for
analysis?
Because they study things like changes made to articles, number of edits
per time...
Thanks very much!
You're welcome.