Newer snapshots super cede their old brethren. So a 20100130 already
includes all of the old content of 20080103 baring and format changes.
--tomasz
Kevin Webb wrote:
Also, does the 20080103 dump combined with lastest
20100130 dump
provide a complete edit history of Wikipedia? I'm unclear about
whether the 20080103 dump was cumulative or if there was some other
previous cut off point.
Is it correct to assume that future dumps will begin post 2010-01-30?
Thanks!
kpw
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Kevin Webb <kpwebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It's in EC2 so I could get it to you in about 20 mins. Just hit me
> with an email off-list with the desired destination...
>
> kpw
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> Yup, that's the one. If you have a fast upload pipe then I'm more then
happy
>> to setup space for it. Otherwise it should be arriving in our snail mail
>> after a couple of days.
>>
>> -tomasz
>>
>> Kevin Webb wrote:
>>> Many thanks to everyone involved.
>>>
>>> Also, in case it's of use to anyone I have a copy of the
>>> enwiki-20080103-pages-meta-history.xml dump in 7z form. Is that the
>>> backup that's beeing referred to or is it in fact 20081003?
>>>
>>> kpw
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
>>>> Thankfully due to an awesome volunteer we'll be able to get that
2008
>>>> snapshot in our archive. I'll mail out when it shows up in our snail
>>>> mail.
>>>>
>>>> --tomasz
>>>>
>>>> Erik Zachte wrote:
>>>>> I'm thrilled. Big thanks to Tim and Tomasz for pulling this off.
>>>>> For the record the 2008-10-03 dump existed for a short while only.
>>>>> It evaporated before wikistats and many others could parse it,
>>>>> so now we can finally catch up from 3.5 (!) years backlog.
>>>>>
>>>>> Erik Zachte
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-
>>>>>> bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Finc
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:11
>>>>>> To: Wikimedia developers;
xmldatadumps-admin-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org;
>>>>>> xmldatadumps(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>>> Subject: [Wikitech-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming
pages-
>>>>>> meta-history.xml.bz2 :D
>>>>>>
>>>>>> New full history en wiki snapshot is hot off the presses!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's currently being checksummed which will take a while for
280GB+ of
>>>>>> compressed data but for those brave souls willing to test please
grab
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> from
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
http://download.wikipedia.org/enwiki/20100130/enwiki-20100130-pages-
>>>>>> meta-history.xml.bz2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and give us feedback about its quality. This run took just over a
month
>>>>>> and gained a huge speed up after Tims work on re-compressing ES.
If we
>>>>>> see no hiccups with this data snapshot, I'll start mirroring
it to
>>>>>> other
>>>>>> locations (internet archive, amazon public data sets, etc).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For those not familiar, the last successful run that we've
seen of this
>>>>>> data goes all the way back to 2008-10-03. That's over 1.5
years of
>>>>>> people waiting to get access to these data bits.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm excited to say that we seem to have it :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --tomasz
>>>>>>
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