There is a precedent for this which includes being granted the "researcher" user right. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Researchers#Researcher
You probably need to contact the Research Committee:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee
Tom
On 11 December 2011 12:32, Katja Müller Katja_Mueller@lavabit.com wrote:
Hi there,
we are doing information retrieval research on the Wikipedia history. Currently we are thinking about including the archive of Deleted Articles in the analysis.
What is the current regulation on access to the Deleted Archive? According to this page, admins can permit access to single articles on request:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Access_to_deleted_pag...
However, is there a way (for researchers) to either: a) access (API) or download the whole archive of Deleted Articles b) get statistics or meta data about the Deleted Archive (article counts, revision meta information, logs) ?
Kind regards, Katja Mueller
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