Brion Vibber wrote: > Farkas, Illes wrote: >> Hello, > >> A question about http://download.wikimedia.org/*/latest. Is it >> possible to reconstruct a snapshot for a given day from >> pages-meta-history? > > To a certain degree, though there are some difficulties with making an > *exact* snapshot. The primary complications are: > > * Page renames -- reliably determining which page was at which title on > which date might be tricky if it's been moved around > * Deletions -- obviously anything that's been deleted since won't be in > your reconstructed snapshot > * Images and templates -- changes to images and templates per above > complicate the reconstruction of pages which use them > > -- brion
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