[WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

[FT2]

Deferring to tech views but I'd have thought "almost certainly not". There
may well be gaps after August 2001 for one thing; importing earlier records
would incorrectly imply a complete history was shown of user and page edits.

We probably could make a museum piece of them by creating "
January2001.wikipedia.org" though.

FT2



On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:08 PM, WereSpielChequers <
werespielchequers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can these edits be imported into wikipedia in time for the tenth
> anniversary?
>
> I'm assuming some will relate to pages that have since been moved or
> deleted so I appreciate this won't be an easy project.
>
> WereSpielChequers
>
> On 14 December 2010 16:16, Michael Snow <wikipedia at frontier.com> wrote:
> > On 12/14/2010 7:54 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> >> I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I
> >> opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete
> >> backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August 2001!
> > I guess producing database dumps was easier in those days. Seriously
> > though, this is absolutely fantastic news!
> >
> > --Michael Snow
> >
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