[Foundation-l] Historical wikipedia dumps

Fri Aug 22 12:11:44 UTC 2008

Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Once I had this idea: a tool that shows Wikipedia at a certain, chosen
> point of time. For example, I'd like to browse through Wikipedia
> seeing always the state of January 1st 2003. Image if Wikipedia were
> already decades old and we could read the state of 1965. (One can
> always use the version history, yes, but that's more work for the
> reader.) Maybe this is something more interesting to a historian like
> me than to other people. :-)

Me too, that would be excellent :) Not sure how light on the database it 
could be made, but it shouldn't be too hard to make static pages frozen 
at a certain point of time.