[Foundation-l] Historical wikipedia dumps

[Ben Yates]

What would be ideal is a client-side wiki reader that could load past
revisions at runtime.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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