On 10/1/05, Daniel P. B. Smith dpbsmith@verizon.net wrote:
On 10/1/05, Anthony DiPierro wikispam@inbox.org wrote:
OK, now I'm interested. What was the article like when it was deleted? Can't we copy these things somewhere before deleting them? I'd like to include the article in Jnanabase.
I thought you were already running an automated 'bot that pumps all the articles deleted from Wikipedia into McFly?
No, that's way too hard of a thing to automate. I was able to keep it going for a while, but there are a lot of technical impediments and it just required way too much attention. Between the fact that VfD kept changing out from under me and the fact that some moron got the bright idea of creating blank pages over top of the deleted pages and then protecting them, I gave up on the bot. The cabal has spoken, they don't want me to be able to view deleted articles. In this case, information just didn't want to be free.