Netocrat wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:19:49 -0700, Brion Vibber
wrote:
Netocrat wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:22:42 +0100, Rowan Collins wrote:
You can use the Special:Export page to export the
complete histories
of individual pages, so you could pick a few which seemed suitably
representative and play with them.
The complete history option doesn't have any affect on the articles I
tried on wikipedia although it works on my server - is it disabled?
Yeah, that's temporarily disabled as it tends to die on very long pages
and that was causing some problems. Needs some work...
OK, any other way to access a few revision histories short of manually
editing and copy-and-paste-ing each one?
You can have my test set if you like. I put it at
http://wikimedia.org/junk/history_expt.tar.bz2
It's 7.5 MB. I used that test set for the proof of principle detailed at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_compression
Once I had a working implementation within MediaWiki, I downloaded the
full dump for
ca.wikipedia.org, which was about 40 MB. I had a 56K modem
at the time too, so that's no excuse. It's no big deal that it's not in
English, you can still tell if it's working.
-- Tim Starling