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 <nos...@vyznev.net> wrote: > 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 of the page I'm interested that >> is in pages-meta-history.xml > > If you're only interested in a small number of pages, you can get an > up-to-date "mini dump" through Special:Export. See > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Export> and > <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Export> for details. > > Alternatively, you can also fetch page histories through the API: > <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query_-_Properties#revisions_.2F_rv> > > -- > Ilmari Karonen > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- -- Paolo Massa Email: paolo AT gnuband DOT org Blog: http://gnuband.org _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
