That's right. I use the API and the XML dumps if I need text content. If you let me know about the type of analysis you are performing, I can advise about the best strategies.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > If we're talking Wikimedia Mediawiki instances, yes, the API is your > only way forward - for performance reasons the text content is stored > in a totally different set of servers that (to my knowledge) even paid > researchers don't get to mess around with. Alternately you could take > a look at https://dumps.wikimedia.org if slightly outdated information > is okay to you. > > On 29 July 2015 at 18:58, Srijan Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I want to read the text stored in the text tables[1], but the old_text > field > > stores it as what seems to be the path to the blob. How can I get the > > content of the blob? > > > > Alternately, is there any other way to access all text content (including > > deleted content) without requiring global rights to the API? > > > > Thanks! > > Srijan > > > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Text_table > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
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