On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I was looking through some old files in our
SourceForge project. I
opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete
backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August 2001!
This is exciting, because there is lots of article history in here
which was assumed to be lost forever.
Wow, this is really, really amazing! I'm not sure just how you
avoided having a heart attack after seeing this:
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HomePage|979586833
1c1
< Describe the new page here.
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> This is the new WikiPedia!
Great work!
Rob