Hoi, This is a request that has been waiting for an answer now for a month. Personally I am of the opinion that we should positively answer this request. Sander Spek is one of the most respected Dutch wikipedians, he is the one mentoring Frank Schepers. If there is a need for extra surity for the privacy of the table, we can ask for some acknowledgment that it will be used only and exclusively for the use of this research. Thanks, GerardM ------------------------------------------------- Frank Schepers Keelstraat 5a 3770 Vroenhoven – Riemst (Belgium) 0032 – 498 – 365280 Hello, I'm a last year student Knowledge Engineering/Computer Science of the faculty of General Sciences at the University of Maastricht. The subject of the Master Thesis I'm working on is: "Personalization of the WikiWikiWeb". On the Dutch Wikipedia I have an account with the nickname frankschepers, but I don't have edited articles yet. My supervisor is prof. dr. Jaap van den Herik. My daily advisor will be drs. Sander Spek, who is a frequent editor on the Dutch Wikipedia site and who came up with the subject of this Master thesis. The thesis will contain a theoretical and a practical part. In the theoretical part various methods of personalization will be examined and their applicability on Wiki's. In the practical part, I will make an extension for the wikimedia software. This will be an article recommender system. This system will display for a Wikipedian, who has a watch list, some articles that aren't on his watch list, but though are interesting for him. If it is possible to create a good working recommender system, this will improve the quality of the articles on Wikipedia because more interested users will read/edit the article. So I will evaluate if personalization can be applied in an effective way on Wiki's. For this research I need a database dump of the watchlist table. This table cannot be downloaded from http://download.wikimedia.org/archives/nl/ because of some privacy issues I suppose. So my question is, if it is possible to get a database dump of the watch list table. If you require any further information, feel free to contact me. Kind regards, Frank