[Air-L] Tools to grab data from Wikipedia?

[jeremy hunsinger]

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
> 
> -- 
> Randall Livingstone
> Doctoral Student - Communication & Society
> School of Journalism & Communication
> University of Oregon
> livingst at uoregon.edu
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Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech



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