Thanks Federico. I'm cc'ing Tiziano, who has been leading this project and can chime in.
All the best, Bob
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:22 AM Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Robert West, 11/09/20 11:29:
local instances of MediaWiki, enhanced with the capacity of correct historical macro expansion.
Interesting. I see this doesn't include deleted templates. Have you considered using historical dumps?
«We emphasize that the limitation of deleted pages, tem- plates, and modules is not introduced by our parsing process. Rather, it is inherited from Wikipedia’s deliberate policy of permanently deleting the entire history of deleted pages.»
A relevant task is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2851
See also the various discussions about Memento, like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164654
Federico