-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Farkas, Illes wrote: > Hello, > > A question about http://download.wikimedia.org/*/latest. Is it > possible to reconstruct a snapshot for a given day from > pages-meta-history?
To a certain degree, though there are some difficulties with making an *exact* snapshot. The primary complications are: * Page renames -- reliably determining which page was at which title on which date might be tricky if it's been moved around * Deletions -- obviously anything that's been deleted since won't be in your reconstructed snapshot * Images and templates -- changes to images and templates per above complicate the reconstruction of pages which use them - -- brion -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklGmUMACgkQwRnhpk1wk45AvACeLWZRlO78JiR2FzoyDmgWOtV+ +IcAnikQxv6r7/1cNiYc/VBYBPaGZZE8 =Kjo/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
