Magnus Manske wrote:
The reasoning behind this is to ease mirror updates, which then won't have to wait for the next dump. Goes like this:
- Check your mirror database for the latest date any article has
- Get a list of all articles that have changed since that moment
- Get all these articles via the "normal" Special:Export function
- Update your database with these
See extensions/OAI for the mass update server/client we've been setting up experimentally.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)