Page metadata
The following page and revision information is available in XML format in the XML/sql dumps. For the xml schema, see the appropriate version of the export xsd.
Page metadata
[edit]- Title of the page
- Namespace of the page
- Page id (for old versions these are shown in the URLs of page history links)
- If the page is a redirect, the title of the redirect
The entire page table dump is also available; see Database tables for more information about it.
Revision metadata
[edit]- Id of the revision
- If the edit was marked as a 'minor' revision by the editor
- Date and time the edit was made
- Username and user id, or IP address of the editor
- Comment left by the editor when the edit was saved
- Length in bytes of the revision content
- Sha1 sum of the revision content
- Revision id of the previous (parent) revision
- Content model of the revision (is it wikitext? json?)
- Content format of the revision
Additionally the id of the related entry in the text table is provided.
Content
[edit]In content dumps, almost all of the same metadata is provided, and the full content of included revisions is also written.
Not available in the XML files
[edit]Other metadata about a page is available in the aforementioned page table dump only, and includes:
- If the page is protected
- Whether the page is newly created or has more than one revision
- Id of the most recent revision of the page
- Length in bytes of the content
- Content model of the page
- Content language of the page
See also
[edit]See en:Wikipedia:Edit summary#Places where the edit summary appears for lists of edit metadata.
For details see the documentation of the MediaWiki database.
See also mw:Help:export, RDF metadata