[Xmldatadumps-admin-l] [Wikitech-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 :D

Thu Mar 11 03:50:48 UTC 2010

Many thanks to everyone involved.

Also, in case it's of use to anyone I have a copy of the
enwiki-20080103-pages-meta-history.xml dump in 7z form. Is that the
backup that's beeing referred to or is it in fact 20081003?

kpw

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Thankfully due to an awesome volunteer we'll be able to get that 2008
> snapshot in our archive. I'll mail out when it shows up in our snail mail.
>
> --tomasz
>
> Erik Zachte wrote:
>> I'm thrilled. Big thanks to Tim and Tomasz for pulling this off.
>> For the record the 2008-10-03 dump existed for a short while only.
>> It evaporated before wikistats and many others could parse it,
>> so now we can finally catch up from 3.5 (!) years backlog.
>>
>> Erik Zachte
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Finc
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>>> xmldatadumps at lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Subject: [Wikitech-l] 2010-03-11 01:10:08: enwiki Checksumming pages-
>>> meta-history.xml.bz2 :D
>>>
>>> New full history en wiki snapshot is hot off the presses!
>>>
>>> It's currently being checksummed which will take a while for 280GB+ of
>>> compressed data but for those brave souls willing to test please grab
>>> it
>>> from
>>>
>>> http://download.wikipedia.org/enwiki/20100130/enwiki-20100130-pages-
>>> meta-history.xml.bz2
>>>
>>> and give us feedback about its quality. This run took just over a month
>>> and gained a huge speed up after Tims work on re-compressing ES. If we
>>> see no hiccups with this data snapshot, I'll start mirroring it to
>>> other
>>> locations (internet archive, amazon public data sets, etc).
>>>
>>> For those not familiar, the last successful run that we've seen of this
>>> data goes all the way back to 2008-10-03. That's over 1.5 years of
>>> people waiting to get access to these data bits.
>>>
>>> I'm excited to say that we seem to have it :)
>>>
>>> --tomasz
>>>
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