[Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

[Chad]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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(cc'd to wikitech-l)
I saw this the other day as well and found it odd. While enwiki dumps
do take the longest, this does seem like an _incredibly_ long time for
"All pages with complete page edit history (.bz2)" to finish (May 2009).

-Chad