So it's been pointed out that a lot of this data would be effectively worthless in a public data dump, due to the fact that they're generally months out of date. In addition, XML is huge, and the Stack Overflow data dump is already very large.

Therefore, I recommend including all of the information outlined above (with Anna's clarifications and caveats) in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, but adding only the following to the public data dump:

• Links but excluding Related links
  • Also a LinkTypes table documenting the two types of links that are included
• Account ID on Users rows

That is all. Note that I'm explicitly excluding Close and Reopen flag-votes: as Anna noted, including deleted votes gives a skewed picture of what actually happens unless flags related to deleted posts are included as well... Since most close and re-open flags are deleted, this leaves very little relevant information to include in a public, months-out-of-date dump.

It would be nice to figure out a way of including some meta-data on deleted posts, as that would enable including a much larger set of information regarding flags and reviews... However, this would be a fairly major change, and as such is out of scope for this feature request.

So it's been pointed out that a lot of this data would be effectively worthless in a public data dump, due to the fact that they're generally months out of date. In addition, XML is huge, and the Stack Overflow data dump is already very large.

Therefore, I recommend including all of the information outlined above (with Anna's clarifications and caveats) in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, but adding only the following to the public data dump:

• Links but excluding Related links
  • Also a LinkTypes table documenting the two types of links that are included
• Account ID on Users rows

That is all. Note that I'm explicitly excluding Close and Reopen flag-votes: as Anna noted, including deleted votes gives a skewed picture of what actually happens unless flags related to deleted posts are included as well... Since most close and re-open flags are deleted, this leaves very little relevant information to include in a public, months-out-of-date dump.

It would be nice to figure out a way of including some meta-data on deleted posts, as that would enable including a much larger set of information regarding flags and reviews... However, this would be a fairly major change, and as such is out of scope for this feature request.

So it's been pointed out that a lot of this data would be effectively worthless in a public data dump, due to the fact that they're generally months out of date. In addition, XML is huge, and the Stack Overflow data dump is already very large.

Therefore, I recommend including all of the information outlined above (with Anna's clarifications and caveats) in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, but adding only the following to the public data dump:

• Links but excluding Related links
  • Also a LinkTypes table documenting the two types of links that are included
• Account ID on Users rows

That is all. Note that I'm explicitly excluding Close and Reopen flag-votes: as Anna noted, including deleted votes gives a skewed picture of what actually happens unless flags related to deleted posts are included as well... Since most close and re-open flags are deleted, this leaves very little relevant information to include in a public, months-out-of-date dump.

It would be nice to figure out a way of including some meta-data on deleted posts, as that would enable including a much larger set of information regarding flags and reviews... However, this would be a fairly major change, and as such is out of scope for this feature request.

So it's been pointed out that a lot of this data would be effectively worthless in a public data dump, due to the fact that they're generally months out of date. In addition, XML is huge, and the Stack Overflow data dump is already very large.

Therefore, I recommend including all of the information outlined above (with Anna's clarifications and caveats) in the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, but adding only the following to the public data dump:

• Links but excluding Related links
  • Also a LinkTypes table documenting the two types of links that are included
• Account ID on Users rows

That is all. Note that I'm explicitly excluding Close and Reopen flag-votes: as Anna noted, including deleted votes gives a skewed picture of what actually happens unless flags related to deleted posts are included as well... Since most close and re-open flags are deleted, this leaves very little relevant information to include in a public, months-out-of-date dump.

It would be nice to figure out a way of including some meta-data on deleted posts, as that would enable including a much larger set of information regarding flags and reviews... However, this would be a fairly major change, and as such is out of scope for this feature request.