[Foundation-l] dumps

Chad innocentkiller at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 20:17:36 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> 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 :).
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Afaik, it's fully open on all the wikis except enwiki (according to the
admin log).
However, I've yet to find any place in CommonSettings or InitialiseSettings
that
changes it from the default. It's no so much a bug as it is a configuration
choice :)

-Chad


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