Zeyi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Firstly, congratulations for this! as i Know it has taken for a long time!
>
> and May I ask a small question: what difference between current dump and
> history dump. I know current one only includes current edits, and history
> one has all edits as introduction said.

You have explained the difference perfectly :)

> More specifically, how different
> shows on one article? Can anyone explain it in detail, please?

It doesn't "show" the article. It's just a really really large bunch of 
wikitext separated by xml tags.
It is shown by a tool. If you just wwant to read the articles, you don't 
need histories.

> Additionally, why all the statistics of Wikipedia only use history dump for
> analysis?

Because they study things like changes made to articles, number of edits 
per time...

> Thanks very much!

You're welcome.



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