Thankfully due to an awesome volunteer we'll be able to get that 2008
snapshot in our archive. I'll mail out when it shows up in our snail mail.
--tomasz
Erik Zachte wrote:
> I'm thrilled. Big thanks to Tim and Tomasz for pulling this off.
> For the record the 2008-10-03 dump existed for a short while only.
> It evaporated before wikistats and many others could parse it,
> so now we can finally catch up from 3.5 (!) years backlog.
>
> Erik Zachte
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-
>> bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Finc
>> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:11
>> To: Wikimedia developers; xmldatadumps-admin-l@lists.wikimedia.org;
>> xmldatadumps@lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: [Wikitech-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-
>> meta-history.xml.bz2 :D
>>
>> New full history en wiki snapshot is hot off the presses!
>>
>> It's currently being checksummed which will take a while for 280GB+ of
>> compressed data but for those brave souls willing to test please grab
>> it
>> from
>>
>> http://download.wikipedia.org/enwiki/20100130/enwiki-20100130-pages-
>> meta-history.xml.bz2
>>
>> and give us feedback about its quality. This run took just over a month
>> and gained a huge speed up after Tims work on re-compressing ES. If we
>> see no hiccups with this data snapshot, I'll start mirroring it to
>> other
>> locations (internet archive, amazon public data sets, etc).
>>
>> For those not familiar, the last successful run that we've seen of this
>> data goes all the way back to 2008-10-03. That's over 1.5 years of
>> people waiting to get access to these data bits.
>>
>> I'm excited to say that we seem to have it :)
>>
>> --tomasz
>>
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