I have also wanted this for a long time.
http://www.petitiononline.com/urmwpnow/petition.html
http://undeletewikipedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/clarity-in-petition.html
mike

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Katja Müller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> we are doing information retrieval research on the Wikipedia history.
> Currently we are thinking about including the archive of Deleted
> Articles in the analysis.
>
> What is the current regulation on access to the Deleted Archive?
> According to this page, admins can permit access to single articles on
> request:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Access_to_deleted_pages
>
> However, is there a way (for researchers) to either:
> a) access (API) or download the whole archive of Deleted Articles
> b) get statistics or meta data about the Deleted Archive (article
> counts, revision meta information, logs)
> ?
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Katja Mueller
>
>
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