On 02/22/2011 04:15 PM, Paul Houle wrote:
Hi, I've been thinking about the early history of Wikipedia and
about what which sort of topics got written early on. I'm wondering if there is an easy way to find the first N wikipedia topics (where N is say 100,000) in the order they were created.
Start reading from the beginning of the XML dump, http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html
The order articles appear there is mostly the creation date, except for the first year (2001), where it is a little more random.