I have also wanted this for a long time. http://www.petitiononline.com/urmwpnow/petition.html http://undeletewikipedia.blogspot.com/2009/10/clarity-in-petition.html mike
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:32 PM, 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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