In regards to the "wikiunderground" site, I have a couple questions.
Is it directly tied-in to the Wikimedia software? Or is it just a fast-refreshing crawler?
If the latter, is it sufficiently equipped to handle all article deletions?
Secondly, this concept raises a lot of possibilities. First of all, the question of
deletion itself. Is there a need to permanently delete pages so that only administrators
can view them? Or could we have another userlevel (somewhere between autoconfirmed and
admin) called "Pageview" where you could view deleted pages? I mean, this might
be a bad idea because it would remove the importance of deletion (why bother deleting a
page if some users will be able to view it) but this level might require 6 months and 500
edits.
Thirdly, a developer might even want to automate this process, wherein all deleted pages
are transfered to a subdomain, perhaps
deleted.wikipedia.org or something to that effect.
Just some thoughts.
Just a thought.