Just to be clear, your suggesting that, in lieu of a compressed dump, people who want the full history of the english wikipedia should use Special:Export to download it, article by article?
Its a truly awful idea. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It may in fact be much more user friendly to >> simply offer an enormous text file for download because users don't >> have to unpack it. > > > Another point, which I forgot to mention. If you have the bandwidth to kill > and just want an enormous uncompressed text file, why not just screen-scrape > everything? > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
