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Revision as of 07:48, 31 July 2011

If you are searching for an offline reader of Wikipedia, go to #Offline.
If you want to archive your wiki, read more at WikiTeam.
English Wikipedia dump
is 5439 days old

This page contains a lot of links to historical info about Wikipedia, its sister projects (Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, Wikinews, Wikispecies, Commons, Meta) and her predecessors or old Internet encyclopedia projects now closed (Interpedia, GNUPedia and Nupedia).

Wikipedia pages can be edited by everyone, and the histories are saved and publicly available, but usually is hard to find very old stuff. I hope you enjoy this page. Nostalgia time!

Have you got more historical info about Wikipedia? Please, share it with us.

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You can download all the articles of the English Wikipedia (with complete edit history) in an unique file (compressed in 7zip format) from here (ATTENTION: 31 GB! Direct link: pages-meta-history.xml.7z; use a download manager to resume downloads; also NTFS or EXT4 file systems required). You can't read that file in an easy way, but, you can save it for posterity. I think that we must save a copy of Wikipedia in every country around the world.

No more Libraries of Alexandria destroyed.
English Wikipedia size in August 2010, if printed.

If you are an admin in an external free-licensed wiki, publish backups of the text articles and images, please. Every year, dozens of wikis dissapear around the globe.

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Status of the Internet encyclopedia projects:

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nupedia.


Permit mirror sites.

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There is no need to set up an organization or a bureaucracy to do this, because Internet users like to set up “mirror sites” which hold duplicate copies of interesting web pages. What we must do in advance is ensure that this is legally permitted.

Therefore, each encyclopedia article and each course should explicitly grant irrevocable permission for anyone to make verbatim copies available on mirror sites. This permission should be one of the basic stated principles of the free encyclopedia.

Some day there may be systematic efforts to ensure that each article and course is replicated in many copies—perhaps at least once on each of the six inhabited continents. This would be a natural extension of the mission of archiving that libraries undertake today. But it would be premature to make formal plans for this now. It is sufficient for now to resolve to make sure people have permission to do this mirroring when they get around to it.

— Richard M. Stallman, The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource

Latest dumps

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The dumps are usually huge XML files. You can parse them using pywikipediabot xmlreader.py script. This is thought for researchers. If you are searching for an offline reader of Wikipedia, go to the #Offline section.

Please, expand

Offline versions of Wikipedia

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Currently there are several options for reading an offline copy of Wikipedia:

More info: meta:Wikipedia on CD/DVD and Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team

Historical dumps

Wikimedia servers on the first day of install. Photo taken by Jimbo Wales.

This is a list with some links to Wiki[mp]edia dumps and other related bunches of raw data (usually many zipped GB, which sometimes expands to TB). Enjoy.

Torrents

See also: meta:Data dump torrents.

Domas visits logs

Visits logs for Wiki[mp]edia projects. ATTENTION: Read this and this.

Year Month Download Size Combined size
There is no visits logs previously to 2007-12-09 18:00:00 UTC
2007 December IA 12.5 GB 12.5 GB
2008 January IA 19.6 GB Unknown
February IA 18.5 GB
March IA 19.6 GB
April IA 20.6 GB
May IA 28.6 GB
June IA 34.1 GB
July IA 33.7 GB
August IA
September IA
October IA
November IA
December IA
2009 January IA Unknown
February IA
March IA
April IA
May IA
June IA
July IA
August IA
September IA
October IA
November IA
December IA (no projectcounts)
2010 January IA (no projectcounts) Unknown
February IA (no projectcounts)
March IA (no projectcounts)
April IA 42.1 GB
May IA 42.5 GB
June IA 33.7 GB
July IA 34.6 GB
August IA
September IA 46.3 GB
October IA 47.0 GB
November IA (no projectcounts) 46.2 GB
December IA
2011 January IA Unknown
February IA
March IA
April IA
May IA
June IA
July
August
September
October
November
December
Total Unknown
IA = Internet Archive

(About uploading those files to the IA: [1] [2] [3]; or a way better solution.)

Image tarballs

Not available.

Mailing lists archives

Our first article is online now!
http://www.nupedia.com/newest.phtml
This is, of course, a modest beginning, but it's a very significant
development. Congratulations to Christoph Hust for being the first.
             --Larry

Not Wiki[mp]edia

Other free projects which allow downloading their dumps:

See also

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