Thanks Oliver and Aaron. I want to look at the deleted revisions as
described in the project meta page [1], which is not there in the XML dump.
I know the revisions that I want to get the content for. What would you
advice?
Happy to take this off the list if it gets too specific.
Thanks!
Srijan
[1]
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From: Aaron Halfaker <ahalfaker(a)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
<wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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(a)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https://dumps.wikimedia.org if slightly outdated information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(a)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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