Brion, thanks for the links to nostalgiawiki, could I please mirror (backup) the archive files on the site and upload them to the Internet Archive?
I searched<http://web.archive.org/web/1996-2004re_/http://download.wikimedia.org>Archive's Wayback Machine and couldn't find any full edit history dumps past this one <http://ia310908.us.archive.org/3/items/enwiki-2006-11-04-backup/>from 11-04-2006. I have a 20070402 dump here<http://www.jeffkubina.org/data/wikipedia/dumps/enwiki/200704/enwiki-20070402-pages-meta-history.xml.7z> . Jeff -- Jeff Kubina http://claimid.com/kubina On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thomas Dalton wrote: > > 2008/12/12 <[email protected]>: > >> I was wondering if there is a way to download an early English > >> Wikipedia database xml dump (something in the first month or so). > >> Curently, at download.wikimedia.org there are only a few recent dumps, > >> and none of them are complete. > > > > You may be interested in http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage > > For background -- nostalgia.wikipedia.org is a read-only copy built from > the earliest English Wikipedia backup I could find, from December 20, 2001. > > I converted it to modern MediaWiki and put it up in 2005 for the 4th > anniversary of Wikipedia's opening. > > It's included in our regular XML data dumps, so you can pull a modern > XML-style dump right here: > > > http://download.wikimedia.org/nostalgiawiki/20081126/nostalgiawiki-20081126-pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 > > Revisions from 2005 are applications of automated format conversions to > fix CamelCase links etc. > > > Unfortunately I'm not aware of any earlier Wikipedia backups still in > existence; some revisions from the first few months won't be included in > this dump (or in live Wikipedia) because UseModWiki, the software we > originally ran on, came configured by default to delete old revisions > after two weeks. :( > > Some older revisions *might* still exist in the Internet Archive's > Wayback Machine (http://archive.org/) but we've never done a systematic > check... > > - -- brion > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAklJTeYACgkQwRnhpk1wk44Y9QCcDIUik0ZnPuMTmPhJ8qUXzw8G > WIYAn1rypvpVH7Wzx8JCDzV8PRrQLA/H > =7+qO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
