switching to the public list with Bob's permission.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Robert West <robert.bob.west@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,

I'd like to find all enwiki articles that were ever marked with the {{hoax}} template. Pages with that template mostly end up being deleted, so they're not available in the public revision dumps.

Hence my question:
Is there a way of getting access to the full enwiki revision dump including all deleted pages?
I don't know yet which deleted articles I'm interested in, but will only know that after having done a pass over the full revision history.

I know that viewing deleted content is problematic (hence I'm sending this request to this internal research list), but I signed an NDA and have access to data on HDFS via stat1002, so there might be a way for me to access that data?

I'm also aware of a list of archived hoaxes, but many shorter-lived hoaxes that got deleted fast are not included there.

Thanks -- any pointers welcome!
Bob


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