Thanks Tim and Tomasz. This is great news. <br><br>bilal<br>--<br clear="all">Verily, with hardship comes ease.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Tomasz Finc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tfinc@wikimedia.org">tfinc@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thankfully due to an awesome volunteer we'll be able to get that 2008<br>
snapshot in our archive. I'll mail out when it shows up in our snail mail.<br>
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--tomasz<br>
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Erik Zachte wrote:<br>
> I'm thrilled. Big thanks to Tim and Tomasz for pulling this off.<br>
> For the record the 2008-10-03 dump existed for a short while only.<br>
> It evaporated before wikistats and many others could parse it,<br>
> so now we can finally catch up from 3.5 (!) years backlog.<br>
><br>
> Erik Zachte<br>
><br>
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>> <a href="mailto:bounces@lists.wikimedia.org">bounces@lists.wikimedia.org</a>] On Behalf Of Tomasz Finc<br>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:11<br>
>> To: Wikimedia developers; <a href="mailto:xmldatadumps-admin-l@lists.wikimedia.org">xmldatadumps-admin-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>;<br>
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>> Subject: [Wikitech-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-<br>
>> meta-history.xml.bz2 :D<br>
>><br>
>> New full history en wiki snapshot is hot off the presses!<br>
>><br>
>> It's currently being checksummed which will take a while for 280GB+ of<br>
>> compressed data but for those brave souls willing to test please grab<br>
>> it<br>
>> from<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://download.wikipedia.org/enwiki/20100130/enwiki-20100130-pages-" target="_blank">http://download.wikipedia.org/enwiki/20100130/enwiki-20100130-pages-</a><br>
>> meta-history.xml.bz2<br>
>><br>
>> and give us feedback about its quality. This run took just over a month<br>
>> and gained a huge speed up after Tims work on re-compressing ES. If we<br>
>> see no hiccups with this data snapshot, I'll start mirroring it to<br>
>> other<br>
>> locations (internet archive, amazon public data sets, etc).<br>
>><br>
>> For those not familiar, the last successful run that we've seen of this<br>
>> data goes all the way back to 2008-10-03. That's over 1.5 years of<br>
>> people waiting to get access to these data bits.<br>
>><br>
>> I'm excited to say that we seem to have it :)<br>
>><br>
>> --tomasz<br>
>><br>
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