Hoi,<br>At the time it was published that the WMF would not retain old backups. This had to do with the cost of storage at the time and a lack of perceived value of these backups.<br>Thanks,<br>     GerardM<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">

2009/11/20 Cormac Lawler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:cormaggio@gmail.com">cormaggio@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

<div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/20 Delip Rao <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:deliprao@gmail.com" target="_blank">deliprao@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><div class="im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">


Hi,
<div><br></div><div>How do I get access to older wikipedia dumps? In particular, I am looking for the dump from 9/11/2006. Any help is much appreciated.</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I had thought all dumps were archived at <a href="http://download.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">download.wikimedia.org</a> - but clearly not. Internet Archive have some &lt;<a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=enwiki" target="_blank">http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=enwiki</a>&gt;, but not the specific one you&#39;re looking for. Perhaps one of the techies (eg Greg Maxwell, Domas) keep historical records? But this would be quite an oversight if there are no backups on Wikimedia&#39;s servers.</div>


<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Cormac</div></font></div>
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