On 02/22/2011 04:15 PM, Paul Houle wrote: > Hi, I've been thinking about the early history of Wikipedia and > about what which sort of topics got written early on. I'm wondering if > there is an easy way to find the first N wikipedia topics (where N is > say 100,000) in the order they were created.
Start reading from the beginning of the XML dump, http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html The order articles appear there is mostly the creation date, except for the first year (2001), where it is a little more random. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
