I'd like to have access to a tarball of the Wikipedia. Larry mentioned Jason as being the one to set up the cron jobs, so I'm copying him FWIW.
A couple details haven't been discussed:
1. When the tarball becomes available, I assume it'll be a link from the appropriate Wikpedia page? I'd propose at least HomePage. Maybe Wikipedia_FAQ. And how about a page devoted to the tarball. Say, [[Wikipedia Snapshot]]? See
2. It wasn't discussed whether all versions would be archived or not. That, of course, is ideal. But it will grow ''ad infiniutum.'' (''ad nauseum''? :-) I think it's essential for the historical record to archive all revisions, but I think there should also be a "snapshot" tarball of only the latest version of each article. It would be considerably smaller and wouldn't grow as fast as the full archive. If that was done, then there could be a page called [[Wikipedia Archives]] that had links to both tarballs.
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