Greetings Wikitechies,

I'm working on a research project on Wikipedia, and I'd like to create or obtain a historical snapshot of Wikipedia on or about a given date. I'm familiar enough with mediawiki that I could hack my own script recreating the contents of the "cur" table from the corresponding history (eg. by calling getRevisionText() a couple of 10^5 times). However since I'd hate to rediscover the wheel, I'd appreciate if you could let me know if this has been done before, if there are archives of old snapshots, or if there's an easier way to approach it technically.

Thank you!

Miran B