[Foundation-l] Historical wikipedia dumps

[mboverload]

Does anyone know where old database dumps are kept?  (all revisions
preferable).  I asked in #wikimedia-tech but was told that that
Wikimedia does not keep that kind of thing.

Anyone have any ideas?  It's for a project to develop a new grammar
checker that needs to see how articles are created and deleted over
time - thus just the old revisions wouldn't work.

I thought this quote was a good one, and would be an acceptable solution.

  "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important
stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"
        Torvalds, Linus (1996-07-20). Post to linux.dev.kernel
newsgroup. Retrieved on 2006-08-28.

Thanks,
User:mboverload