[Foundation-l] Historical wikipedia dumps

Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 10:29:19 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is no a lot of sense to keep historical dumps because the only
> "historical information" from such dumps would be a timestamp and,
> possibly, a different file format (it is XML now, it was SQL in the
> past). All relevant historical informations which are kept inside of
> the dumps are inside of the latest database dump.

Deleted articles, oversighted versions, anyone?Ä



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