I think a lot of those efforts petered out because, in the end, the material was of so little utility no one was interested in it.
Or to put it another way; it was being archived for the sake of it, more than anything else.
Tom
On 11 June 2012 14:02, Tarc Meridian tarc@hotmail.com wrote:
This has been tried before, i.e. wikialpha.org. Pages are speedily deleted for a reason, many of them quite properly so. Moving potentially libelous BLP attack pages and other sundry junk to a publicly viewable wiki is not a very well-thought-out idea.
From: jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 07:37:24 +0000 To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched
Hi, I have launched speedydeletion.wika.com , it is updated every 30 minutes with the proposed deletions and speedy deletion articles (not notable and hoaxes, not others). it is running on the en.wikipedia.org. the sources for the script are
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on git hub and are a merger of pywikipediabot and the wikiteam codebases. hope you enjoy it, thanks, mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
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