2008/12/17 Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Jeff Kubina jeff.kubina@gmail.com wrote:
Dimo,
Check the internet archive http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=enwiki.
Note that since the full edit history dump includes the time stamps of each edit you could derive the state of wikipedia at any point in time.
Due to deletions, moves, partial undeletions (I.e. delete some revs, move the page, undelete everything) and various glitchups this is not strictly true.
It's not at all true for the really early days - large amounts of the page histories from the first few months are gone for good.