On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Robert Ullmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> For every 1000th pageid, get the earliest rev and note the date and > time. (If a given ID is missing, i.e. deleted, hunt around it, +1, -1, > +2, -2 etc 'till you find one.) > > To get the date and time for a particular pageid, interpolate between > the next higher and lower 1000th. This should pretty much always get > you the correct date, with some chance of it being off by one for > pages created near midnight UTC. That's a clever idea. As it turns out, using the stub dump wasn't bad; I was able to assign earliest revision dates and revision counts to the articles in WEX overnight. _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
