[Foundation-l] Historical wikipedia dumps

[Ziko van Dijk]

Oh, this nostalgia wp still exists, yes.

I thought about a tool or a user surface where I simply type
"2003-01-01" (as an example) and Wikipedia will show me the articles
from that point of time. I understand that there might be problems
with deleted images, merged articles, right. But it would still be
interesting enough, certainly the older Wikipedia grows. I do not know
so much about technical matters, but I can not imagine that such a
tool would be very complicated. (?)

Greetings
Ziko


2008/8/25 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:
>> Ziko van Dijk wrote:
>>> Once I had this idea: a tool that shows Wikipedia at a certain, chosen
>>> point of time. For example, I'd like to browse through Wikipedia
>>> seeing always the state of January 1st 2003. Image if Wikipedia were
>>> already decades old and we could read the state of 1965. (One can
>>> always use the version history, yes, but that's more work for the
>>> reader.) Maybe this is something more interesting to a historian like
>>> me than to other people. :-)
>>
>> Me too, that would be excellent :) Not sure how light on the database it
>> could be made, but it shouldn't be too hard to make static pages frozen
>> at a certain point of time.
>
> Like http://nostalgia.wikimedia.org, but for more dates? :)
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