On 17/05/12 14:23, Ariel T. Glenn wrote: > There's a few other reasons articles get deleted: copyright issues, > personal identifying data, etc. This makes maintaning the sort of > mirror you propose problematic, although a similar mirror is here: > http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page > > The dumps contain only data publically available at the time of the run, > without deleted data. > > The articles aren't permanently deleted of course.
And is a much better way to retrieve them than the binlogs (which are only kept for a short time anyway). > The revisions texts live on in the database, > so a query on toolserver, for example, could be used to get at them, > but that would need to be for research purposes. Not really. You could get a list of deleted titles/authors from the toolserver, but not the page contents, which for some strange reason are not replicated there (not even available to the roots). _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
