https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/104140
Revision: 104140
Author: ariel
Date: 2011-11-24 08:46:33 +0000 (Thu, 24 Nov 2011)
Log Message:
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more disclaimers, bolder disclaimers, info on the other files in each dir
Modified Paths:
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branches/ariel/xmldumps-backup/incrementals/incrs-index.html
Modified: branches/ariel/xmldumps-backup/incrementals/incrs-index.html
===================================================================
--- branches/ariel/xmldumps-backup/incrementals/incrs-index.html
2011-11-24 08:45:18 UTC (rev 104139)
+++ branches/ariel/xmldumps-backup/incrementals/incrs-index.html
2011-11-24 08:46:33 UTC (rev 104140)
@@ -65,18 +65,20 @@
for documentation on the provided data formats.
</p>
<p>
- Here's the big fat disclaimer.
+ <strong>Here's the big fat disclaimer.</strong>
</p>
<p>
- This service is experimental. At any time it may not be working, for
a day, a week or a month.
+ <em>This service is experimental.</em> At any time it may not be
working, for a day, a week or a month.
It is not intended to replace the full XML dumps. We don't expect
users to be able to construct
- full dumps of a given date from the incrementals and an older dump.
+ full dumps of a given date from the incrementals and an older dump.
We don't guarantee that the data
+ included in these dumps is complete, or correct, or won't break your
Xbox. In short: don't blame us (but
+ do get on the email list and send mail: see <a
href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xmldatadumps-l";>xmldatadumps-l</a>).
</p>
<p>
The data provided in these files is ''partial data''. To be precise:
<ul>
<li>* Revisions included in these dumps are not up to the minute.
We write out those that were
- created up to 18 hours ago; this gives local editing communities
time to delete revisions
+ created up to 12 hours ago; this gives local editing communities
time to delete revisions
with sensitive information, vulgarities and other vandalism,
etc.</li>
<li>* New pages entered for the first time during the time interval
are included</li>
<li>* Revisions of undeleted pages will be included only if new
revision IDs need to be assigned to
@@ -85,7 +87,8 @@
<li>* Imported revisions will be included if they were imported
during the time interval, since they
will have new revisions IDs.</li>
<li>* As with all dumps, hidden revisions or more generally
revisions not readable by the general public
- are not provided.</li>
+ are not provided.</li>
+ <li>* When a wiki is closed, it no longer shows up in this
list.</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
@@ -104,7 +107,19 @@
you get articles, user pages, discussion pages, etc. If you want
articles only, you will need to write a
filter to grab just those entries.
</p>
- <h2>Adds/changes dump listing</h2>
+ <p>
+ The md5sums.txt file contains the md5 hash of the stubs file and the
revs file, so that downloaders can verify
+ the integrity of the files after download.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The file maxrevid.txt contains the largest revision ID on the project
at the time we checked, which should be the
+ same as the timestamp of that file.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The file status.txt, if it exists, will contain the value "done" in
cases where the run is complete and was
+ successful.
+ </p>
+ <h2>Adds/changes dump listing (links to latest complete run)</h2>
<ul>
%(items)s
</ul>
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