[Foundation-l] dumps

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Tue Feb 24 20:01:52 UTC 2009


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.



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