[Foundation-l] Historical wikipedia dumps

Thu Aug 28 05:02:00 UTC 2008

I would really like to be able to access at least the _previous_ dumps: this
can be very useful when the current dumps are either still running, or are
aborted/stopped (as many of them are right now due to disk space issues).
Are the previous dumps available anywhere?

Luca

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Ben Yates <ben.louis.yates at gmail.com>wrote:

> What would be ideal is a client-side wiki reader that could load past
> revisions at runtime.
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > Oh, this nostalgia wp still exists, yes.
> >
> > I thought about a tool or a user surface where I simply type
> > "2003-01-01" (as an example) and Wikipedia will show me the articles
> > from that point of time. I understand that there might be problems
> > with deleted images, merged articles, right. But it would still be
> > interesting enough, certainly the older Wikipedia grows. I do not know
> > so much about technical matters, but I can not imagine that such a
> > tool would be very complicated. (?)
> >
> > Greetings
> > Ziko
> >
> >
> > 2008/8/25 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>:
> >> 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? :)
> >>
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