On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Michael Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 30 Nov 2008, at 20:11, Robert Rohde wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Erik Zachte > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> English -> English dump > >> > >>> Because myself and others have been frustrated by the lack of good > >>> stats on the number of active editors on the English Wikipedia, I > >>> have > >>> compiled some stats on the editing frequency on enwiki: > >> > >> No worries: in only 176 days from now the English dump will be > >> ready and I > >> can run wikistats scripts on it. > >> It just started 52 days ago, so let us be patient for a while ;) > > > > Is there any reason at all to believe that it is more likely to finish > > this time than all the previous attempts during the last two years? > > > > I have virtually zero faith in a script that takes 230 days and where > > any error wipes out all progress. > > > > -Robert Rohde > > Hold on...what? There is no recent dump of the English Wikipedia, and > there hasn't been for the last 2 years? > > Please tell me I'm misunderstanding things here. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > (cc'd to wikitech-l) I saw this the other day as well and found it odd. While enwiki dumps do take the longest, this does seem like an _incredibly_ long time for "All pages with complete page edit history (.bz2)" to finish (May 2009). -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
