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

[Randall Livingstone]

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