Folks, First, I have to apologize if this has been dealt with on the list before. Just point me in the right direction. =) I am doing academic research into Wikipedia and am a stand still. I need: - · The complete history of three articles as some sort of text or flat file. - · A way to access more history for later research I try to download the datadumps (pages-meta-history.xml.7z<http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20060518/…) in the following browsers with the following results: Firefox Dump stops at 4 gig IE Dump is seen only as a corrupt 1.6 gig file Opera Dump is seen only as a corrupt 1.6 gig file Is there a way to ftp the file? I can't get either single article histories or the whole thing and I am at a loss. This should be much easier than this, so I think I am missing something. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!! Mark Mark Bell http://www.storygeek.com "The future is here...it's just not widely distributed." - Tim O'Reilly