Ziko van Dijk wrote:
Once I had this idea: a tool that shows Wikipedia at a
certain, chosen
point of time. For example, I'd like to browse through Wikipedia
seeing always the state of January 1st 2003. Image if Wikipedia were
already decades old and we could read the state of 1965. (One can
always use the version history, yes, but that's more work for the
reader.) Maybe this is something more interesting to a historian like
me than to other people. :-)
Ziko
I think it was discussed before on wikitech-l. Probably when talking
about implementing stable versions.
Wouldn't be too hard to restrict on a given page to the history data at
X date. However,
-You would need to reverse page moves.
-When a page was deleted and some revisions restored before the epoch,
you don't know which ones were restored.
-Page merges would be specially difficult, as they're a mix of the two
above.