[Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

[Tim Starling]

On 15/12/10 07:36, Henning Schlottmann 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?

Just English, unfortuately.

You may find this interesting:

<http://web.archive.org/web/20030318055654/http://nupedia.com/pipermail/interpret-l.mbox/interpret-l.mbox>

<http://web.archive.org/web/20020817032335/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/intlwiki-l.mbox/intlwiki-l.mbox>

-- Tim Starling