Hi! Sorry, I've been off the grid the past few days. To answer your question: No, Wikiunderground isn't tied into the wikimedia software -- it uses a combination of screen-scraping, exporting, etc. You can read more about that at http://code.google.com/wikiunderground -- note that the scripts are actually offline right now as I get a couple things working on my computer. Wikiunderground could in theory handle all article deletions, but it doesn't need to because there's already a site that does that: deletionpedia -- http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com However, I think there are a couple problems that prevent deletionpedia from attracting a community on its own, and make it more valuable as a companion project or a sort of go-to resource. (These are copy-pasted from another email I sent someone.) 1. The deletionpedia layout is a little depressing -- even the name. It's all about deletion. But stuff is already getting deleted; deletionpedia is really about *preservation* and making things public. People need to feel like they're having fun. 2. Deletionpedia is a static archive, which means there's no opportunity for anything except reading, and the whole draw of wikipedia is around editing. 3. Deletionpedia doesn't interface as well with wikipedia as it could -- the links all point to a blank-ish page that then points to wikipedia. Wikiunderground does it a different way, partly because I'm a much worse programmer than the deletionpedia guy -- it does a find-and-replace on incoming articles that prepends "wikipedia:" to every link. On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Flameviper Velifang <theflameysnake(a)yahoo.com> wrote: -- Ben Yates Wikipedia blog - http://enotes.com/blogs/wikipedia