Looks like it's in the WayBack Machine: 

http://web.archive.org/web/20110614170356/http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/wikipedia-logs-2001-08-17.7z

But it would still be nice to know that the archives are still maintained by Wikimedia though. 



On Oct 7, 2021, at 8:58 PM, Denny Vrandečić <dvrandecic@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Or even better, if there is a Web accessible version of these early edits.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 5:57 PM Denny Vrandečić <dvrandecic@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I wanted to see the beginning of the article about Jupiter.

When I go to Jupiter's revision history and click on oldest, I get here:


which takes me to the revision as of November 5, 2001:


Given that the the article at this point doesn't look like this were the original edition, I expect more history to be in the UseMod archives. 

I remembered Tim Starling announced a few years ago that he found a few old archives:



Unfortunately, that link has gone stale.

Does anyone know where these archives are?

Cheers,
Denny
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