[Foundation-l] dumps

[Brian]

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?

Its a truly awful idea.


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
>
>> It may in fact be much more user friendly to
>> simply offer an enormous text file for download because users don't
>> have to unpack it.
>
>
> Another point, which I forgot to mention.  If you have the bandwidth to kill
> and just want an enormous uncompressed text file, why not just screen-scrape
> everything?
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