On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jeff Kubina jeff.kubina@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the help, but I'm still a bit confused about this case: in enwiki-20090714-stub-meta-history.xml the AmericanSamoa page has a pageId of 6; as shown below. But, in enwiki-20090914-stub-meta-history.xml it has an id of 23741520 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/AmericanSamoa, with only the last edit history entry. So what happen? Is this an example of a delete, then restore with a new id? Why are the older revisions missing or does a restore only restore the latest revision?
I assume the Page ID answer lies with whatever the hell Graham87 was doing here in July:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=AmericanSamoa
Also, if you use a URL GET, such as you have above, it only gives the most recent revision. You can uncheck the "Include only the current revision" box at Special:Export if you want to get additional revisions from the online form.
-Robert Rohde