User:Emijrp/Wikipedia Archive
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This unofficial Wikipedia Archive is a project to keep a record of Wikimedia projects backups, check their status and encourage the creation of better and periodically copies.
- If you are searching for an offline reader of Wikipedia, go to #Offline. If you want to archive your wiki, read more at WikiTeam. If you want to create a mirror of Wikipedia dumps, read meta:Mirroring Wikimedia project XML dumps.
This page contains links to backups and other historical information about Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikiversity, Wikinews, Wikispecies, Commons, Wikidata and Meta. There are also some data about 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!
Please, if you have enough free disk space, consider downloading Wikimedia dumps. You can use this downloader (it requires GNU/Linux) to get all 7zip full history files for all projects. You can't read these files in an easy way, but you can preserve them for posterity. I think that we must save a copy of Wikipedia in every country around the world.
If you are an admin of a free-licensed wiki, consider publishing backups of the text articles and images (read tutorial). Every year, dozens of wikis disappear around the globe. WikiTeam is trying to avoid that destruction.
You are welcome to improve this page or leave a message in the talk page.