Brion, thanks for the links to nostalgiawiki, could I please mirror (backup)
the archive files on the site and upload them to the Internet Archive?
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Jeff Kubina
http://claimid.com/kubina
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Brion Vibber
brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
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> Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > 2008/12/12
lamiataspaska@mail.bg:
> >> I was wondering if there is a way to download an early English
> >> Wikipedia database xml dump (something in the first month or so).
> >> Curently, at download.wikimedia.org there are only a few recent dumps,
> >> and none of them are complete.
> >
> > You may be interested in
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage
>
> For background -- nostalgia.wikipedia.org is a read-only copy built from
> the earliest English Wikipedia backup I could find, from December 20, 2001.
>
> I converted it to modern MediaWiki and put it up in 2005 for the 4th
> anniversary of Wikipedia's opening.
>
> It's included in our regular XML data dumps, so you can pull a modern
> XML-style dump right here:
>
>
>
http://download.wikimedia.org/nostalgiawiki/20081126/nostalgiawiki-20081126-...
>
> Revisions from 2005 are applications of automated format conversions to
> fix CamelCase links etc.
>
>
> Unfortunately I'm not aware of any earlier Wikipedia backups still in
> existence; some revisions from the first few months won't be included in
> this dump (or in live Wikipedia) because UseModWiki, the software we
> originally ran on, came configured by default to delete old revisions
> after two weeks. :(
>
> Some older revisions *might* still exist in the Internet Archive's
> Wayback Machine (
http://archive.org/) but we've never done a systematic
> check...
>
> - -- brion
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