Re: [Wikitech-l] Question about oldest Wikipedia dump available for different Wikipedias

2010-08-02 Thread paolo massa
Yep, thanks to your email, I realized a "mini dump" extracted randomly is enough for my purposes. Thanks Ilmari! P. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Ilmari Karonen wrote: > On 07/20/2010 09:51 AM, paolo massa wrote: >> Thanks Gregor and yes, you are right. >> I didn't think about your suggestio

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question about oldest Wikipedia dump available for different Wikipedias

2010-07-20 Thread Ilmari Karonen
On 07/20/2010 09:51 AM, paolo massa wrote: > Thanks Gregor and yes, you are right. > I didn't think about your suggestion before, sorry. > The fact is that I wrote a script running on the > pages-meta-current.xml because it is much smaller and manageable but, > you are right: I can use the revision

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question about oldest Wikipedia dump available for different Wikipedias

2010-07-19 Thread paolo massa
Thanks Gregor and yes, you are right. I didn't think about your suggestion before, sorry. The fact is that I wrote a script running on the pages-meta-current.xml because it is much smaller and manageable but, you are right: I can use the revision of the page I'm interested that is in pages-meta-his

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question about oldest Wikipedia dump available for different Wikipedias

2010-07-19 Thread Aryeh Gregor
2010/7/19 paolo massa : > I wanted to conduct a longitudinal analysis so having data going back > in time up to the first day of wikipedia would be totally awesome! > Even at time windows of one year would be enough. > And it would be great to have them for different wikipedias (en, de, it, ...) W

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question about oldest Wikipedia dump available for different Wikipedias

2010-07-19 Thread paolo massa
I wanted to conduct a longitudinal analysis so having data going back in time up to the first day of wikipedia would be totally awesome! Even at time windows of one year would be enough. And it would be great to have them for different wikipedias (en, de, it, ...) Thanks! P. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010

Re: [Wikitech-l] Question about oldest Wikipedia dump available for different Wikipedias

2010-07-19 Thread Ariel T. Glenn
There are older dumps that we will be getting ahold of, but we don't have them ourselves right this second. What time period are you looking for? Ariel Στις 19-07-2010, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 10:30 +0200, ο/η paolo massa έγραψε: > Hi, I checked the dumps of the Italian Wikipedia at > http://dumps.

[Wikitech-l] Question about oldest Wikipedia dump available for different Wikipedias

2010-07-19 Thread paolo massa
Hi, I checked the dumps of the Italian Wikipedia at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/itwiki/ and I found there are 6 dumps available, the latest 2010-Jun-27, the oldest 2010-Mar-02. My question is: are older dumps stored somewhere? Is it possible to get them? Even if this involves running some script on