AlphabetDP(a)aol.com wrote:
It never occurred
to us that 'wikipedia' was storing full copies of all versions of an
article based on the 590MB May 22, 2004 number and considering the high
number of articles the db had. We must have been reading the wrong
statistics.
That sounds like the table of current revisions. The old revisions table
for
en.wikipedia.org is over 10GB.
Do the 'wikipedia' administrators remove
history from their wiki in
order to preserve space? If so, how is this done? Is there some sort of
'export only the lastest version of each article, etc.' option, clear
the db, and then import the lastest version back?
No.
Our administrator has set the
"$wgCompressRevisions = true;" since your
message (above) -- will that take care of only the revisions since the
flag was turned on or will there be compression of the previous
revisions as well?
That only affects newly saved revisions. There is a 'compressOld.php'
script in the maintenance directory which will go through and get the rest.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)