Talk:IBM History Flow tool

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).[reply]

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)[reply]

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; index file needs to be generated with 1 entry per line per each revision (details of index file are in tool's help). I am not sure if metadata needs to be stripped. Shame the help file doesn't contain the code script for data collection itself. PS. We already have a slightly modified Special:Export that can download past 100 revision, but we need to refine it a little bit.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 23:14, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]