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It could be as simple as mirroring wikipedia but never propagating the deletions. Trying to edit an article would redirect one to wikipedia; trying to edit a de
by joeyo 17y ago
It could be as simple as mirroring wikipedia but never propagating the deletions. Trying to edit an article would redirect one to wikipedia; trying to edit a deleted article would instead edit the local copy (in the event of the article being recreated on wikipedia at a later date there could be an automatic upstream merge).
- eru 17y agoThis might be a good start. Though you will also want to keep links to the deleted articles alive.
- Perceval 17y agoIf you took half a second to look through the "New pages" feed, and saw not only the hideous quality and dubious nature of nearly all newly created pages, but also the vast quantity of new articles created every few minutes, you might rethink your position on keeping all deleted articles. Many new articles deserve speedy deletion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPages
- joeyo 17y agoOk, so only add pages to the mirror that are older than N days or have more than M (non-reverted) edits. Probably you'd also need to have tracking for when page names change. It's not a deal-breaker.
- joeyo 17y agoThat's a good point. I'll have to think about this.