On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Henning Schlottmann
<h.schlottmann(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Hi Magnus,
On 14.12.2010 22:35, Magnus Manske wrote:
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Henning
Schlottmann
<h.schlottmann(a)gmx.net> wrote:
On 14.12.2010 16:54, Tim Starling 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!
That's wonderful news. Is this for enWP only or were all languages in
one database back then?
There was only English back in the day...
Not true. The first other languages were introduced on March 15 and
could be part of this archive if the different Wikipedias were in one
database under UseMod.
My earliest recorded entry in de.wikipedia dates September 2001 (and I
have a low two-digit user ID, which was created upon the switch to
MediaWiki), so there seem to be some versions missing indeed. Do you
know the oldest preserved esit on de.wp?
Do you remember how this worked?
AFAIR, every language had its own UseMod setup. My import script only
took the last version; Brion later wrote one that filled in the
previous ones from the stored diffs.
Magnus