Totally agree! And also I think an info page listing all past versions will also be helpful:)
Monica On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Andrew Dunbar <hippytr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 December 2010 20:04, Andrew Dunbar <hippytr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 14 December 2010 01:57, Monica shu <monicashu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Diederik and Waksman, > >> > >> It seems that I need to do parse the dump for article data to get this > piece > >> of information... > >> Yes, this will be the last choice, but I think there maybe some easier > >> way... > >> > >> I just got home and checked the dump I've downloaded. > >> It's downloaded on June, 10, 2010, the size is 6117881141 in bz2. > >> I remember when I download, it's the latest version at that moment. > >> As the dumps are generated every N months, and the one I have is bigger > that > >> the version 2010-01-30 as Waksman said, my version should be between Feb > to > >> June. > > > > A Google search hints that enwiki-20100312-pages-articles.xml.bz2 > > might be the one with size 6117881141. > > > > Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail) > > > > > >> Does anybody remember the version between this period, or happened to > >> download the same version with me? > >> > >> Thanks very much to tell me any related information again! > >> > >> > >> Best regards! > >> Monica > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Shaun Waksman <shaunwaks...@gmail.com > >wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Monica, > >>> > >>> The file sizes of the EN pages dumps that are available today are: > >>> > >>> 5204823166 enwiki-20100312-pages-articles.xml.7z > >>> 5983814213 enwiki-20100130-pages-articles.xml.bz2 > >>> > >>> Note that the former is in 7z and the later is in bz2 > >>> > >>> Does this help? > >>> > >>> Shaun > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Monica shu <monicashu...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > Hi all, > >>> > > >>> > I have downloaded a dump several month ago. > >>> > By accidentally, I lost the version info of this dump, so I don't > know > >>> when > >>> > this dump was generated. > >>> > Is there any place that list out info about the past dumps(such as > >>> > size...)? > >>> > > >>> > Thanks! > >>> > > >>> > Monica > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> > Wikitech-l mailing list > >>> > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >>> > > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikitech-l mailing list > >>> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >> > > > > It should be trivial to add the dump data to the header each dump > file. Since in the files themselves the date field of the filename is > often replaced by "latest" this could be very useful. It could also be > useful to include the revision ID and timestamp of the latest revision > but I assume this would be a little more difficult. Should I file a > feature request? > > Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
