I was thinking about the licensing issue some more. Apparently there
was a relevant United States court case regarding metadata several
years ago in the United States, but it's unclear to me from my brief
web search whether this holding would apply to metadata from every
nation. Also, I don't know
Hi Joseph,
Thanks for this announcement.
I am looking for license information regarding the dumps, and I'm not
finding it in the pages that you linked at [1] or [2]. The license
that applies to text on Wikimedia sites is often CC-BY-SA 3.0, and the
WMF Terms of Use at
I want to echo what Nate said. We've been using this for more than a year
within the Wikimedia Foundation, and it has made analyses of editing
behavior much, much easier and faster, not to mention a lot less annoying.
This is the product of years of expert work by the Analytics team, and they
Hi Analytics People,
The Wikimedia Analytics Team is pleased to announce the release of the most
complete dataset we have to date to analyze content and contributors
metadata: Mediawiki History [1] [2].
Data is in TSV format, released monthly around the 3rd of the month
usually, and every new
