Zeyi wrote:
Hi,
Firstly, congratulations for this! as i Know it has taken for a long time!
and May I ask a small question: what difference between current dump and history dump. I know current one only includes current edits, and history one has all edits as introduction said.
You have explained the difference perfectly :)
More specifically, how different shows on one article? Can anyone explain it in detail, please?
It doesn't "show" the article. It's just a really really large bunch of wikitext separated by xml tags. It is shown by a tool. If you just wwant to read the articles, you don't need histories.
Additionally, why all the statistics of Wikipedia only use history dump for analysis?
Because they study things like changes made to articles, number of edits per time...
Thanks very much!
You're welcome.