[Foundation-l] Historical wikipedia dumps

Fri Aug 22 10:39:56 UTC 2008

Hi,

Deleted articels are also in the dump like oversight also. If you
delete a articele is stay's in the database.

Greatings,
Huib

2008/8/22, Mathias Schindler <mathias.schindler op gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh op 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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