On Nov 17, 2007 6:10 PM, Di (rut) vulpeto@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All, specially Anthony and Platonides,
I'm not techy - so why hasn't it been possible to have a non-corrupt dump in a long time (that includes history?). A professor of mine asked if the problem could be man(person)-power and if it would be interesting/useful to have the university help with a programmer to help the dump happen.
I believe Brion Vibber is the only one who can possibly answer this question. Does anyone else even have access to the dump server and permission to fix the problem?
I've about given up on there being a valid dump any time soon.
And last but not least - If the dumps don't work, then it is very important to be able to dump some articles with their full histories in other fashions. I ask my pledge again - do you know who made the block so that export would only allow for 100 revisions? any way to hack that? Would it be possible to open an exception to get the data for a research study?
Email Brion Vibber. If he doesn't respond within a few days email Sue Gardner. If she doesn't respond in a few days, let us know on here once again. I don't know their email addresses off hand but they're probably not hard to find. If you do get a response, please let me or the list know.
In the mean time, why not just write a script to automate exporting 100 revisions at a time?