It's ad hoc right now but basically we keep about a year's worth, maybe
a little less, of everything as "current"... this will likely shrink as
dumps get larger, but that's over a good period of time.
Ariel
Στις 04-06-2012, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 11:02 -0700, ο/η Napolitano, Diane
έγραψε:
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
> >