Hi Mike, I can't give you access to deleted edits, only the community can do that and they are notoriously picky as to who they appoint as admins.
Also it is not a practical task for one person or even a dozen persons. Why don't you start with my suggestion about articles that are now redirects? WSC On 3 July 2012 16:05, Mike Dupont <[email protected]> wrote: > I am willing to do the work to prepare them, I think that I could find > people to help me. > please give me access, I will be responsible. > mike > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:44 PM, WereSpielChequers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike do you realise how big a task that would be? We have stats going > back > > to December 2004 showing millions of such deletions. We have data going > > back further, but some of our earliest edits are no longer available. > > > > Providing we screen out the children releasing personal details, the > > copyvio and the attack pages then I doubt anyone would mind you having > the > > genuinely non-notable. But that means that each such deleted article > would > > need to be reviewed before giving it to you, and there are millions of > > them. Worse still only admins can access those deleted edits and though > our > > editing community as a whole is broadly stable, the number of active > admins > > has sharply declined. > > > > I would suggest that if you want a freely available source of > non-noteable > > articles you look at our redirects. In particular look for redirects that > > aren't just a different spelling of the name, and that have had multiple > > edits. That should get you the articles on songs that have been > redirected > > to the article on a band and of fictional characters that have been > > redirected to the film they appeared in. You don't need access to > deleted > > revisions and generally they will be closer to notability than "garage > band > > that will be the next big thing on the Stoke Poges grunge scene once > > they've recruited a drummer". > > > > WSC > > > > > > > > On 3 July 2012 07:34, Mike Dupont <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> So people, I would like to request that all the old non-notable > >> articles be given to me for archiving on speedydeletion, > >> artists, bands, websites, hotels etc, would that be possible? > >> thanks > >> mike > >> > >> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Ken Arromdee <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, WereSpielChequers wrote: > >> >> > >> >> I'm not inclined to shed a tear for hotel articles, many of which > are I > >> >> suspect being created by spammers, but David makes an important > point re > >> >> cultural bias from our lack of sources in certain parts of the world. > >> > > >> > > >> > Wasn't there a probem where Jimbo wrote an article for a restaurant in > >> > South Africa and people tried to delete it for this reason? > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > WikiEN-l mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> James Michael DuPont > >> Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > >> Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org > >> Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> WikiEN-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > -- > James Michael DuPont > Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org > Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org > Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
