Here are a couple of quick indexes into the dump file. I didn't venture into the binary revision data. You'll find an alphabetized list of articles that contains all the diffs for each article in the order that they occured in the dump and a sorted index into each revision as well.
http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/ <http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/>Given that it's finals I don't even have enough time to dig through this at all. Guess I just wanted a distraction =) - Brian On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:27 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]>wrote: > FYI, there is an existing timeline at: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline > > And lots of other wikipedia history pages on English, too. > > :) > Phoebe > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Moka Pantages <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This is so exciting! To Steven's point: we've also started a page > > where folks can add bits of interesting information as they excavate > > the files [1]. Can't wait to dig in! > > > > Congrats, Tim! > > > > [1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_the_Beginning > > > > > > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:20:10 -0800 > > From: Steven Walling <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered > > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > > <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: > > <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > This is fantastic, and the timing could not be better. > > > > If anyone finds anything noteworthy, please add it to the timeline of > > Wikipedia that we're building at the 10th anniversary wiki,[1] as well as > > the other tools for cataloging interesting tidbits from our history.[2] > > > > 1. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline > > 2. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share > > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected] > > > >> 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! > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
