[Wikipedia-l] Tarballs of the database (was Re: is_sysop)

[Ian]

Check out www.archive.org - they may have some of stuff your looking for.

Ian Monroe
http://ian.webhop.org

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Kurt Jansson jansson at gmx.net XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > > Speaking of which; Jimbo, we really need to have a periodically
> produced
> > > database dump tarball available.
> >
> > Hey, I just noticed that there *is* a database dump available now at
> > http://www.wikipedia.com/tarballs/ (as of March 21)! Awesome, thanks!
> >
> > However, the old usemod database has vanished from there. Since the
> old
> > edit histories aren't merged in yet, this is a problem...
> 
> We should also keep in mind, that in about ten years there will be
> scientific studies about the evolution of certain Wikipedia articles,
> and in about 25 years there will be an old Wikipedia tarball lying next
> to an old Linux kernel in the [[Museum of Free Software and Open
> Source]] (existing since 2017).
> 
> Even today it would be nice to see the complete history of an article -
> is this an problem of discspace or speed? Can it be solved?
> 
> Bye,
> Kurt
> 
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