[Foundation-l] dumps

[Anthony]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>  Yeah, I guess that bug was reintroduced.  They had it fixed for a while.
>>
>
> http://blog.p2pedia.org/2008/09/wgexportallowhistoryfalse.html
>

http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/index.php?title=Server_admin_log&diff=16400&oldid=prev

So, yeah, I guess it wasn't fixed for that long.  You're not *supposed* to
be able to dump more than 1,000 revisions at a time, though :).