Why don't you use pages-meta-history? It should contain all the information you want, no matter when dumps were made. Petr Onderka [[en:User:Svick]] On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Pablo Mendes <pablomendes(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I was just time travelling at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/ and the > oldest dump I could find was: 20110526. > > I am building an evaluation dataset that needs the state of Wikipedia in > 2010. Is there a way I could get my hands on a 2010 version of > pages-articles.xml.bz2 ? > > Thank you, > Pablo > > PS: for anybody interested in navigating wikipedia's history > nicely: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34778 >

Out of curiosity, when is a dump considered historical and moved to archive/? Thanks, Diane -----Original Message----- From: xmldatadumps-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:xmldatadumps-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ariel T. Glenn Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 1:44 PM To: Petr Onderka Cc: xmldatadumps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Dump from 2010? http://dumps.wikimedia.org/archive/ If you really need historical dumps there are a few there. Ariel Στις 04-06-2012, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 19:23 +0200, ο/η Petr Onderka έγραψε: > Why don't you use pages-meta-history? > It should contain all the information you want, no matter when dumps were made. > > Petr Onderka > [[en:User:Svick]] > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Pablo Mendes <pablomendes(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was just time travelling at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/ and the > > oldest dump I could find was: 20110526. > > > > I am building an evaluation dataset that needs the state of Wikipedia in > > 2010. Is there a way I could get my hands on a 2010 version of > > pages-articles.xml.bz2 ? > > > > Thank you, > > Pablo > > > > PS: for anybody interested in navigating wikipedia's history > > nicely: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34778 > >