On Mar 31, 2011 6:27 PM, "Luca de Alfaro" <luca@dealfaro.org> wrote:
> I think I would be very interested in 3, or even, in having every month a
> dump of that month's revisions. As I have built tools for the xml dumps, no
> change in format is good for me (and for WikiTrust).
>
> I would find incremental dumps (with occasional, yearly, full dumps) much
> easier to manage than full dumps.
>
> Luca
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm a student planning on doing GSoC this year on mediawiki.
>> Specifically, I'd like to work on data dumps.
>>
>> I'm writing this to gauge what would be useful to the research
>> community. Several ideas thrown about include:
>> 1. JSON Dumps
>> 2. Sqlite Dumps
>> 3. Daily dumps of revisions in last 24 hours
>> 4. Dumps optimized for very fast import into various external storage
>> and smaller size (diffs)
>> 5. JSON/CSV for Special:Import and Special:Export
>>
>> Would any of these be useful? Or is there anything else that I'm
>> missing, that you would consider much more useful?
>>
>> Feedback would be invaluable :)
>>
>> Thanks :)
>> --
>> Yuvi Panda T
>> http://yuvi.in/blog
>>
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