Hi all,
I tried to export the article Intelligent Design (all revisions) from Wikipedia. There's a limitation of max 100 revisions for Special:Export but the article has much more than those 100 revisions. The problem is that I'd like to retrieve a list of the LATEST revisions, but, the export function returns only the FIRST (100) revisions... :(
I presume that most people would like to retrieve the *latest* revisions if the number of existing revisions exceed the maximum number allowed for export.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XML_export#Exporting_the_full_history
May I suggest that
1. (default) - the export list would contain the latest revisions (current(n)...-100) 2. (option) - the user could check a check box in order to retrieve the earliest revisions (1..100)
In this way one could get up to 200 revisions for a title (with a gap in the middle though, if there's more than 200 revisions altogether).
Regards,
// Rolf Lampa