On 7/28/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
That wasn't the case at the time of the deletion. File archiving came in in about June 2006. Many files were deleted before that, often for specious reasons.
I know, not your point.
Ahh. I'd missed that detail. I've gone and recovered the file. Ah. Er. I see you beat me to it. ;)
In addition to snapshotting all of en's uploads at a couple of points, back then I was also saving a copy of every file I automatically tagged precisely because deletion wasn't revertible otherwise, although I never had cause to recover more than a couple of them. (Interesting th
In this case the file was even in the 2005-05-30, so I presume that even more than you and I could have recovered it.
I know, not your point either. ;)