Jun liu wrote:
Hi, in my research,I just want to do some statistical analysis based on the page history and other related metadata (I do not really need to content of the pages). The whole database dump is really too big.
If you're just doing research, you can develop your methods on a dump of some smaller Wikipedia, such as Lithuanian. Then you can step up, borrow a more powerful computer, and see if the method also works on a dump of the Portuguese Wikipedia.