On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Marc-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:

> Clearly, all the data to do so is there in the database - and I seem to
> recall that there exists an extension that will allow you to use the parser
> in that way - but the Foundation projects do not have such an extension
> installed and cannot be convinced to render a page for you that would
> accurately show what ELs it might have had at a given date.
>

That would be the Memento [1] extension. I'm not sure this is even
theoretically possible - the parser has changed over time and old templates
might not work anymore.

Your best bet is probably to find some old dumps. (Kiwix [2] maybe? I don't
know if they preserve templates.)


[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Memento
[2] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/
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