[WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

[WereSpielChequers]

Can these edits be imported into wikipedia in time for the tenth anniversary?

I'm assuming some will relate to pages that have since been moved or
deleted so I appreciate this won't be an easy project.

WereSpielChequers

On 14 December 2010 16:16, Michael Snow <wikipedia at frontier.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 7:54 AM, 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!
> I guess producing database dumps was easier in those days. Seriously
> though, this is absolutely fantastic news!
>
> --Michael Snow
>
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