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January 23
[edit]Is it possible to download copies of all revisions of all Wikipedia pages (that haven't been deleted yet) BEFORE the end of 2009?
[edit]Every revision that happened before December 31, 2009 at 11:59 PM (EST). Yes, this does include all pages in all namespaces. I assume I could just sift through every page on the whole site and do this manually, but that would take a bit too long maybe. :) Is there some automated way I could do this? PseudoSkull (talk) 08:40, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
- @PseudoSkull: I suggest poking around WP:DUMP to see what you can find. For example, here is a copy of English Wikipedia from June 2008: [1]. RudolfRed (talk) 20:53, 23 January 2019 (UTC)