Dear Wiki Researchers,
During the summer we have worked on Wikihadoop [0], a tool that allows us
to create the diffs between two revisions of a Wiki article using Hadoop.
Now I am happy to announce that the entire diffdb is available for download
at
http://http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/diffdb/
This dataset is based on the English Wikipedia April 2011 XML dump files.
The advantage of this dataset is that:
a) You can search for specific content being added / removed
b) Measure more accurately how much text an editor has added or removed
We are currently working on a Lucene-based application [1] that will allow
us to quickly search for specific strings being added or removed.
If you have any questions, then please let me know!
[0]
https://github.com/whym/wikihadoop
[1]
https://github.com/whym/diffindexer
Best regards,
Diederik van Liere