Hi,
I was looking at the enwiki dump progress and noticed the file size for the enwiki pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 has decreased from 255GB on 20100125 down to 105GB on 20100203. Is it possible that old page revision edit data is being lost due to the smaller archive file size?
2009-12-03 12:53:43 in-progress All pages with complete page edit history (.bz2)2010-01-25 16:02:21: enwiki 14833408 pages (3.231/sec), 284292000 revs (61.930/sec), 54.7% prefetched, ETA 2010-02-03 02:34:19 [max 329446505] These dumps can be *very* large, uncompressing up to 20 times the archive download size. Suitable for archival and statistical use, most mirror sites won't want or need this.pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 255.1 GB (written) 2010-02-03 17:28:43 in-progress All pages with complete page edit history (.bz2)2010-02-16 00:32:55: enwiki 747550 pages (0.704/sec), 95964000 revs (90.340/sec), 95.8% prefetched, ETA 2010-03-19 12:10:50 [max 341714004] These dumps can be *very* large, uncompressing up to 20 times the archive download size. Suitable for archival and statistical use, most mirror sites won't want or need this.pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 105.1 GB (written) cheers, Jamie