[Foundation-l] dumps

[Anthony]

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.


> Its a truly awful idea.


Providing only uncompressed dumps would be an even more awful idea.