Talk:IBM History Flow tool

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I downloaded the software from the IBM site. However it doesn't have any instructions on how to use the tool. I couldn't find any way to point it at a wiki page. I want to use it to study contributions on our class wiki. 71.102.97.111.

I'm also interested in some information. Conny 12:39, 30 January 2006 (UTC).

You will need to download a snapshot of the database. Unfortunately the format has changed from SQL to XML, so you would bneed to import into a SQL db and re-export into a SQL dump. Not trivial.Rich Farmbrough 14:31 1 July 2006 (GMT).

Build 187 was easy enough and after installing a secondary plugin, which was easy, I was viewing wiki articles.

Wikipedia limits the history to 100 revisions. The history flow tool defaults to start at the begining. Does anyone know a way to make it download the last 100 revisions?

Tbmorgan74 16:34, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I seem to be able to get this to work - more or less. But I need to wait for a friend to write a script for that (I will publish it here when it's done). Special:Export needs to be used (or parsing database dump) to generate 1 separate file for every revision (and all metadata needs to be stripped); index file needs to be generated with 1 entry per line per each revision (details of index file are in tool's help). Shame the help file doesn't contain the code script for data collection itself, although the script should be relativly simple (for anybody who can actually write those things). PS. We already have a slightly modified Special:Export that can download past 100 revision (offset (revision) input field has been added), but we need to refine it a little bit (i.e automate - so the script does it all in one go).-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  23:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)