Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikitech-l] Announcing Wikihadoop: using Hadoop to analyze Wikipedia dump files

Hello! Over the last few weeks, Yusuke Matsubara, Shawn Walker, Aaron Halfaker and Fabian Kaelin (who are all Summer of Research fellows)[0] have worked hard on a customized stream-based InputFormatReader that allows parsing of both bz2 compressed and uncompressed files of the full Wikipedia dump (dump file with the complete edit histories) using Hadoop. Prior to WikiHadoop and the accompanying InputFormatReader it was not possible to use Hadoop to analyze the full Wikipedia dump files (see the detailed tutorial / background for an explanation why that was not possible). This means: 1) We can now harness Hadoop's distributed computing capabilities in analyzing the full dump files. 2) You can send either one or two revisions to a single mapper so it's possible to diff two revisions and see what content has been addded / removed. 3) You can exclude namespaces by supplying a regular expression. 4) We are using Hadoop's Streaming interface which means people can use this InputFormat Reader using different languages such as Java, Python, Ruby and PHP. The source code is available at: https://github.com/whym/wikihadoop A more detailed tutorial and installation guide is available at: https://github.com/whym/wikihadoop/wiki (Apologies for cross-posting to wikitech-l and wiki-research-l) [0] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/01/summerofresearchannouncement/ Best, Diederik _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l