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?
I
Wayback Machine and couldn't find any full edit history dumps past
this one <http://ia310908.us.archive.org/3/items/enwiki-2006-11-04-backup/>from
11-04-2006. I have a 20070402 dump
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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Thomas Dalton wrote:
2008/12/12 <lamiataspaska(a)mail.bg>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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