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
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