[Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

Michael Snow wikipedia at frontier.com
Tue Dec 14 16:16:39 UTC 2010


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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