[Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

[Thomas Dalton]

>> Not to years but yes the English Wikipedia dumps very rarely work.
>> De.wikipedia is starting to suffer the same issues and image database
>> dumps don't happen.
>
> No, I think it really has been two years (September 2006 to be
> precise).  I'm pretty sure there have been no complete dumps this
> calendar year.  I believe there was one (or two?) full dump process
> that claimed to run to completion in 2007 but it was later found to
> have been truncated (i.e. it didn't really dump all of enwiki, only a
> portion of it).
>
> If I am wrong and there really is a more recent complete history dump
> of enwiki floating around somewhere, then I'd love to hear about it,
> but I don't believe that is the case.

That sounds about right to me. I think the confusion may come from
there being lots of different dumps - the smaller dumps of enwiki do
succeed (occasionally, at least!), it's the full dump of every
revision of every page that fails routinely.