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From: Aaron Halfaker <ahalfaker@wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] How to read blobs in text table?
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
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That's right.  I use the API and the XML dumps if I need text content.
If you let me know about the type of analysis you are performing, I
can advise about the best strategies.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> If we're talking Wikimedia Mediawiki instances, yes, the API is your
> only way forward - for performance reasons the text content is stored
> in a totally different set of servers that (to my knowledge) even paid
> researchers don't get to mess around with. Alternately you could take
> a look at https://dumps.wikimedia.org if slightly outdated information
> is okay to you.
>
> On 29 July 2015 at 18:58, Srijan Kumar <srijankedia@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I want to read the text stored in the text tables[1], but the old_text field
> > stores it as what seems to be the path to the blob. How can I get the
> > content of the blob?
> >
> > Alternately, is there any other way to access all text content (including
> > deleted content) without requiring global rights to the API?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Srijan
> >
> > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Text_table
> >
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