On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Henning Schlottmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Magnus, > > On 14.12.2010 22:35, Magnus Manske wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Henning Schlottmann >> <[email protected]> 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? >> >> There was only English back in the day... > > Not true. The first other languages were introduced on March 15 and > could be part of this archive if the different Wikipedias were in one > database under UseMod.
My earliest recorded entry in de.wikipedia dates September 2001 (and I have a low two-digit user ID, which was created upon the switch to MediaWiki), so there seem to be some versions missing indeed. Do you know the oldest preserved esit on de.wp? > Do you remember how this worked? AFAIR, every language had its own UseMod setup. My import script only took the last version; Brion later wrote one that filled in the previous ones from the stored diffs. Magnus _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
