Here are a couple of quick indexes into the dump
file. I didn't venture
into the binary revision data. You'll find an alphabetized list of articles
that contains all the diffs for each article in the order that they occured
in the dump and a sorted index into each revision as well.
<http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/>Given that it's finals I don't
even have enough time to dig through this at all. Guess I just wanted a
distraction =)
- Brian
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:27 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
FYI, there is an existing timeline at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline
And lots of other wikipedia history pages on English, too.
:)
Phoebe
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Moka Pantages <mpantages(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
This is so exciting! To Steven's point:
we've also started a page
where folks can add bits of interesting information as they excavate
the files [1]. Can't wait to dig in!
Congrats, Tim!
[1]
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_the_Beginning
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:20:10 -0800
From: Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered
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This is fantastic, and the timing could not be better.
If anyone finds anything noteworthy, please add it to the timeline of
Wikipedia that we're building at the 10th anniversary wiki,[1] as well
as
the other tools for cataloging interesting
tidbits from our history.[2]
1.
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline
2.
http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Tim Starling <
tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I
> > opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete
> > backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August
2001!
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