[email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get a hold of the wikipedia dump , in particular 
> enwiki-latest-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2

These are currently not being run until our new dumps system is in 
place. The full history job on our internal servers was taking months to 
complete and wasn't scalable. Thus we turned it off.

> It seems that on the page where it's supposed to be 
> (http://download.wikipedia.org/enwiki/latest/) it's weighing at 0.6KB
> whereas I was used for it to be 147GB
> What happened to the data and where did it went ?

These are currently not being run until our new dumps system is in 
place. The full history job on our internal servers was taking months to 
complete and wasn't scalable. Thus we turned it off.


> Also , on the wikipedia ( 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_database ) page I read
> "As of January 17 </wiki/January_17>, 2009 </wiki/2009>, it seems that 
> all snapshots of pages-meta-history.xml.7z hosted 
> at http://download.wikipedia.org/enwiki/ are missing. The developers at 
> Wikimedia Foundation are working to address this issue 
> (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-January/040841.html). 
> There are other ways to obtain this file"

Not until we get the new system into place. For now you still have all 
of the other archives in place including current pages, log of 
revisions, templates .. etc . Just not the full page text over time.

Were still working on getting that one back in place and hope to have it 
back in line before Wikimania.

> 
> I checked the other ways of obtaining the file that they describe , none 
> worked.
> Why did the dumps vanished and how can I download a copy of them ?

The dumps didn't vanish we just had a bad update late last week that 
trashed the main index. I'll have that cleaned up in the next day or so.

--tomasz


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