That said, there was an attempt in 2013 to provide Memento support,
which would (partially) mitigate this problem by using appropriate
templates:
http://mementoweb.org/wikipedia/
Of course, this would still be vulnerable to deleted images etc. And
we weren't even thinking about Wikidata
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk
wrote:
The oldid. At the moment, I trust our long-term viability more than a
2014 web-archiving startup, even one with praiseworthy names attached
;-)
Possibly an obvious remark: an oldid-based permalink gets you an old
Andrew Gray, 21/01/2015 13:35:
(Foolish question: can oldids be reconstituted from dumps?)
Yes, grep any XML dump for revision to see yourself. However, the
standard import doesn't preserve this information.
Nemo
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