On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
Just to be clear, your suggesting that, in lieu of a
compressed dump,
people who want the full history of the english wikipedia should use
Special:Export to download it, article by article?
No, I wasn't suggesting it as an alternative to compressed dumps at all.
And Special:Export doesn't even work for historical versions any more.
Its a truly awful idea.
Providing only uncompressed dumps would be an even more awful idea.