[Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

[Magnus Manske]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Henning Schlottmann
<h.schlottmann at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 14.12.2010 16:54, Tim Starling wrote:
>> I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I
>> opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete
>> backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August 2001!
>
> That's wonderful news. Is this for enWP only or were all languages in
> one database back then?

There was only English back in the day...