[Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

[Michael Peel]

On 30 Nov 2008, at 20:11, Robert Rohde wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Erik Zachte  
> <erikzachte at infodisiac.com> wrote:
>> English -> English dump
>>
>>> Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good
>>> stats on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I  
>>> have
>>> compiled some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki:
>>
>> No worries: in only 176 days from now the English dump will be  
>> ready and I
>> can run wikistats scripts on it.
>> It just started 52 days ago, so let us be patient for a while ;)
>
> Is there any reason at all to believe that it is more likely to finish
> this time than all the previous attempts during the last two years?
>
> I have virtually zero faith in a script that takes 230 days and where
> any error wipes out all progress.
>
> -Robert Rohde

Hold on...what? There is no recent dump of the English Wikipedia, and  
there hasn't been for the last 2 years?

Please tell me I'm misunderstanding things here.

Mike