Thank you for your quick answer. I'd like to precise a little more the doubts I have:
20050421_cur_table.sql.gz ----> 864 108 KB and 20050421_cur_table.sql ----> around gigabytes (compression factor of around 3)
BUT
20050421_old_table.sql.gz ----> around 31 gigabytes and 20050421_old_table.sql ----> 34 201 362 bytes (compression factor of around 1.1)
Even though gunzip seemed to have worked well, I am still very suspicious. I was expecting an old_table.sql file of around 80 to 90 gigabytes.
I am sorry to insist, but it is very important for my research project to have the integrality of the records in the table "old" for I am trying to study collaboration processes among wikipedians.
Thank you very much.
Kevin Carillo
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MaPhi Werner wrote:
So, out of naivity: how does the process work concerning the incorporation of enhancement patches?
Enhancement patches may or may not get integrated, depending on time, interest, code cleanliness, bugginess, etc.
I continued my work on read-access controlled pages (see http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-March/028105.html for my first approach). The second version abandoned the idea of hiding individual pages and deals with namespaces instead.
Read access restrictions are a really, really low priority. I personally have no interest in seeing such a feature in MediaWiki, though others might take a crack at your patch.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com mailto: )