2008/12/17 Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Jeff Kubina <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dimo, >> >> Check the internet archive <http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=enwiki>. >> >> Note that since the full edit history dump includes the time stamps of each >> edit you could derive the state of wikipedia at any point in time. > > Due to deletions, moves, partial undeletions (I.e. delete some revs, > move the page, undelete everything) and various glitchups this is not > strictly true.
It's not at all true for the really early days - large amounts of the page histories from the first few months are gone for good. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
