[wiki-research] enwiki pages-meta-history dumps

[Anirudh]

You might want to contact Mr. Greg Maxwell or Ms. Kat Walsh at the Wikimedia
Foundation.

Kat Walsh can be reached at : mindspillage at gmail.com

Greg Maxwell is [[User:Gmaxwell]] on the English Wikipedia, please use the
email this user function.

Best wishes,

--Anirudh




On 11/19/07, Matthijs den Besten <matthijs.denbesten at oerc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear list-participants,
>
> Does anyone of you have a copy of a complete dump of the English
> Wikipedia that you would be willing to share?
>
> Like probably many of you, I have been scouring the index of
> http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/ for a while now, hoping that at
> some point a dump of pages-meta-history would appear again -
> unfortunately to no avail.
>
> I know that I could access the wiki contents through the API (
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API )
> but it is not clear to me whether the API would allow me for instance
> to retrieve the edit-history and versions of the articles that were
> labeled "controversial" in 2005. For that I would need a complete
> dump.
>
> I don't care so much whether the dump is up-to-date. In fact, I would
> be more than happy with a dump of 2006, 2005, or even 2004 as their
> more limited size makes them probably easier to handle.  And so, if
> anyone of you has access to an old dump of enwiki that you are willing
> to share, please let us know.
>
> Many thanks,
> Matthijs
>
> --
> M. L. den Besten
> Oxford e-Research Centre
> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ierc0002
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