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).