[Foundation-l] Historical wikipedia dumps

[Platonides]

mboverload wrote:
> 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.

You have the delete log, but you'd need sopme approximation to when they 
were created (unless you have deletedhistory right on that wiki).


> 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.

Then bug WMF about those new storage servers :)