Hi João,
Given you're after mostly "metadata" of revisions and users, and not
article text, I suggest you take a look at the mediawiki-history
<https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/mediawiki_history/readme.html> dumps.
Those dumps are split by year-month for bery big projects, by year for big
ones, and not split for smaller projects.
For ptwiki
<https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/mediawiki_history/2022-01/ptwiki/> the
data is split by year, so you could download only the years you're after.
Also, the data is pretty rich in term of available information per row, and
there are chances it could help you :)
The data schema being not simple, don't hesitate if you need help!
Best
Joseph
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 1:26 PM <joalpe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi there.
I am writing to see if someone could advise on a strategy to build a list
of editors on Wikipedia in Portuguese from 2001 to 2006. I am working on a
piece to understand how the Wikimedia community came to be in the
Portuguese-speaking world and therefore want to explore incentives for
contributions before a stronger sense of community and shared identity
existed. This research is led by Flávia Varella (Theory of History Wiki
initiative, Federal University of Santa Catarina) and myself (Wiki
Movimento Brasil, Cásper Líbero School of Journalism).
Ideally, we would like to rank the list of editors based on their edit
numbers. If possible, we would gather other variables to have a sense of
contributions back then, i.e., bytes added on main space, talk pages etc.
But this appears not to be so easy.
One strategy that was suggested to me was to look at the ptwiki dump. But
the dump is huge and would require major computational capacity to identify
the period we are interested in. One way out would be to find a place with
a dump from 2006: is this something that exists? Who might have access to
older dumps? What other way(s) might exist to find the data I am looking
for?
I appreciate any help!
Cheers,
João (User:Joalpe)
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