Ryan Shaw wrote: > Hello, > > I trying to get earliest revision dates for a set of approximately > 4,000,000 Wikipedia articles. Looking at the MediaWiki API, it seems > that the only way to get information on earliest revisions is to query > on one article at a time. For 4,000,000 articles, this will take far > too long... > > So, my question is: is there any way to query for first revisions in > batches? Alternatively, if there some other source of this > information, such as data dumps? Since I am only looking for the > timestamps of the first revision of each article, I'd like to avoid > downloading complete histories for each article. > > Thanks, > Ryan
You can download the stub dumps. They contain metadata for all revisions, but no revision text. _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
