This script allows you to specify a range of Wikipedia revisions for use with the History Flow visualization.
Instructions
*Note: History Flow is an old, deprecated tool and it is not trivial to get it running nowadays. This tool is provided as a historical artefact and no longer actively maintained.*
The tools chops Wikipedia edit histories in chronological chunks of 100 edits. The tool will provide links to those chunks, which can then be used in History Flow.
Here's how to use the tool:
Input a Wikipedia URL and click submit
Wait until the chronologically ordered table with 'History Flow export links' is returned. Each link represents a chunk of 100 edits.
Open History Flow, go to file > MediaWiki article. You will be presented with two input fields:
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