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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
