[Foundation-l] dumps

[Chad]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
>
> > Just to be clear, your suggesting that, in lieu of a compressed dump,
> > people who want the full history of the english wikipedia should use
> > Special:Export to download it, article by article?
> >
>
> No, I wasn't suggesting it as an alternative to compressed dumps at all.
> And Special:Export doesn't even work for historical versions any more.


You can still dump full-history for an article. I did a
2,000+ revision dump of an article just a week ago.

-Chad