I've been experimenting with the parameters to Special:Export to retrieve the whole history of an article. I haven't been able to get more than 1000 revisions (from en wikipedia).
Does anyone know of a way to obtain the full history of an article? Those huge 7z exports seem too crazy to work with to extract data for only one page.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_Special:Export
Rob