Hi,

Over two years ago I submitted a bug regarding the lack of size information for revisions made before May 2007. Having access to this information is important to study the evolution of MediaWiki articles. Also, it would greatly reduce the burden put over the current API.

The bug is almost solved. A script to update the database was written and is ready to be run. So, if you care about historical information (or simply about data consistency) in MediaWiki, please consider voting:

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12188

Thanks (for your vote)! -- Sérgio Nunes