[Foundation-l] Historical wikipedia dumps

Mon Aug 25 15:29:09 UTC 2008

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:
> 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.

Like http://nostalgia.wikimedia.org, but for more dates? :)