On 07/20/2010 09:51 AM, paolo massa wrote:
Thanks Gregor and yes, you are right. I didn't think about your suggestion before, sorry. The fact is that I wrote a script running on the pages-meta-current.xml because it is much smaller and manageable but, you are right: I can use the revision of the page I'm interested that is in pages-meta-history.xml
If you're only interested in a small number of pages, you can get an up-to-date "mini dump" through Special:Export. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Export and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Export for details.
Alternatively, you can also fetch page histories through the API: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query_-_Properties#revisions_.2F_rv