Thanks Oliver and Aaron. I want to look at the deleted revisions as described in the project meta page [1], which is not there in the XML dump. I know the revisions that I want to get the content for. What would you advice? Happy to take this off the list if it gets too specific.
Thanks! Srijan [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_hoax_articles_on_English_Wikipedia > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:21 PM > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] How to read blobs in text table? > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <[email protected]> > > > 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 a look at https://dumps.wikimedia.org if slightly outdated information 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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