Thank you everyone for the suggestions. I'm actually looking for a tool that can just capture the work (edit histories) of a small number of editors (~350), not a tool that gives me a humongous "data dump" of all (or most) of Wikipedia. Any ideas on grabbing very specific data like this? Randall On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:27 PM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
They actually give you all of that for free. you can just download it
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps
if you want to compare them with older ones... i have some up from 2006 i think On Feb 2, 2011, at 4:16 PM, Randall Livingstone wrote:
Greetings-
I'm wondering if anyone can direct me to available tools or scripts that aid in grabbing Wikipedia data (things like edit histories, editor contributions, etc.). I know there are tools like WikiXRay that grab a huge amount of data, but I'm hoping there are other tools that can grab a much smaller subset of data, either around a certain group of articles or a certain group of editors. Thank you in advance for the assistance...
Randall
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