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?
Its a truly awful idea.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Brian
<Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote:
It may in fact be much more user friendly to
simply offer an enormous text file for download because users don't
have to unpack it.
Another point, which I forgot to mention. If you have the bandwidth to kill
and just want an enormous uncompressed text file, why not just screen-scrape
everything?
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