I think I would be very interested in 3, or even, in having every month a dump of that month&#39;s revisions.  As I have built tools for the xml dumps, no change in format is good for me (and for WikiTrust). <div><br></div>

<div>I would find incremental dumps (with occasional, yearly, full dumps) much easier to manage than full dumps. </div><div><br></div><div>Luca<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Yuvi Panda <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:yuvipanda@gmail.com">yuvipanda@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi, I&#39;m a student planning on doing GSoC this year on mediawiki.<br>
Specifically, I&#39;d like to work on data dumps.<br>
<br>
I&#39;m writing this to gauge what would be useful to the research<br>
community. Several ideas thrown about include:<br>
1. JSON Dumps<br>
2. Sqlite Dumps<br>
3. Daily dumps of revisions in last 24 hours<br>
4. Dumps optimized for very fast import into various external storage<br>
and smaller size (diffs)<br>
5. JSON/CSV for Special:Import and Special:Export<br>
<br>
Would any of these be useful? Or is there anything else that I&#39;m<br>
missing, that you would consider much more useful?<br>
<br>
Feedback would be invaluable :)<br>
<br>
Thanks :)<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Yuvi Panda T<br>
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