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== Making it possible to import histories from the Nostalgia Wikipedia into here ==

It's late at night in Perth so this is just a brain wave ... would it be possible/feasible/desirable to make it possible to import page histories from the Nostalgia Wikipedia to this website? Some background: the [http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org Nostalgia Wikipedia] is a read-only copy of Wikipedia from an 11 December 2001 database dump. However there seems to be some history in Nostalgia.Wikipedia that is not, and never was, stored in the English Wikipedia database. The germ for this idea came when I found the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint&dir=prev&action=history earliest history for saint in the English Wikipedia] and compared it to the [http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saint&action=history history in the Nostalgia Wikipedia], and found eleven edits that are stored in Nostalgia Wikipedia but not in the English Wikipedia. There are only [http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics 95,321 edits] stored in Nostalgia Wikipedia, most of which probably don't need to be imported here. The only problems I can see are that it may mess up the revision ID's (very high numbers will be assigned to very old edits) and we may have problems with the old [[UseModWiki]] form of storing IP addresses like 127.0.0.xxx (obfiscating the last octet). Also there will be some [[CamelCase]] titles that may or may not be worth importing. Would it be worth it ... would it impact the servers much? And yes, [http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export Special:Export would work on Nostalgia Wikipedia]. '''[[User:Graham87|Graham]]'''[[User talk:Graham87|<span style="color:green;">87</span>]] 15:25, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

::''However there seems to be some history in Nostalgia.Wikipedia that is not, and never was, stored in the English Wikipedia database.'' Oh but it ''was'' stored in wikipedia, but all history was lost in The Big Database Crash in 2002 (? Can't fint it! Needs a FAQ). <span style="font-family: verdana;"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color: #008;">'''''E''dokter'''</span>]] • [[User_talk:Edokter|<span style="color: #080;">Talk</span>]] • </span> 15:54, 21 October 2007 (UTC)