Den 09-11-2012 04:38, Rami Al-Rfou' skrev:
I am interested into counting the number of revisions every page went through. I was wondering if it is possible to count that without using the whole history dump. I mean is it available in the schema directly? Is it computable without having the revisions text downloaded?
If you have toolserver access you can readily do it. Embarrassingly I cannot find a tool on the toolserver that already does that.
There is the Wikichecker that shows a count:
http://en.wikichecker.com/article/?a=Denmark
Moreover, many of my future projects will benefit a lot if Wikipedia has incremental dumps of their database. Any one aware of something relevant or close?
It is possible that this paper can help you:
"Wikipedia Revision Toolkit: Efficiently Accessing Wikipedia's Edit History"
https://code.google.com/p/jwpl/
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