Check out www.archive.org - they may have some of stuff your looking for.

Ian Monroe http://ian.webhop.org

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Kurt Jansson jansson@gmx.net XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX wrote:

Hi!

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Speaking of which; Jimbo, we really need to have a periodically

produced

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database dump tarball available.

Hey, I just noticed that there *is* a database dump available now at http://www.wikipedia.com/tarballs/ (as of March 21)! Awesome, thanks!

However, the old usemod database has vanished from there. Since the

old

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edit histories aren't merged in yet, this is a problem...

We should also keep in mind, that in about ten years there will be scientific studies about the evolution of certain Wikipedia articles, and in about 25 years there will be an old Wikipedia tarball lying next to an old Linux kernel in the [[Museum of Free Software and Open Source]] (existing since 2017).

Even today it would be nice to see the complete history of an article - is this an problem of discspace or speed? Can it be solved?

Bye, Kurt

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