On 17/05/12 14:23, Ariel T. Glenn wrote:
There's a few other reasons articles get deleted: copyright issues, personal identifying data, etc. This makes maintaning the sort of mirror you propose problematic, although a similar mirror is here: http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
The dumps contain only data publically available at the time of the run, without deleted data.
The articles aren't permanently deleted of course.
And is a much better way to retrieve them than the binlogs (which are only kept for a short time anyway).
The revisions texts live on in the database,
so a query on toolserver, for example, could be used to get at them, but that would need to be for research purposes.
Not really. You could get a list of deleted titles/authors from the toolserver, but not the page contents, which for some strange reason are not replicated there (not even available to the roots).