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.  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. Ariel Στις 17-05-2012, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 13:30 +0200, ο/η Mike Dupont έγραψε: > Hi, > I am thinking about how to collect articles deleted based on the "not > notable" criteria, > is there any way we can extract them from the mysql binlogs? how are > these mirrors working? I would be interested in setting up a mirror of > deleted data, at least that which is not spam/vandalism based on tags. > mike > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Ariel T. Glenn <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > We now have three mirror sites, yay!  The full list is linked to from > > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ and is also available at > > > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps#Curren… > > > > Summarizing, we have: > > > > C3L (Brazil) with the last 5 good known dumps, > > Masaryk University (Czech Republic) with the last 5 known good dumps, > > Your.org (USA) with the complete archive of dumps, and > > > > for the latest version of uploaded media, Your.org with > > http/ftp/rsync > > access. > > > > Thanks to Carlos, Kevin and Yenya respectively at the above sites for > > volunteering space, time and effort to make this happen. > > > > As people noticed earlier, a series of media tarballs per-project > > (excluding commons) is being generated.  As soon as the first run of > > these is complete we'll announce its location and start generating > > them > > on a semi-regular basis. > > > > As we've been getting the bugs out of the mirroring setup, it is > > getting > > easier to add new locations.  Know anyone interested?  Please let us > > know; we would love to have them. > > > > Ariel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l