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by Snowworm 1496 days ago
Do you think an admin, with some programming knowledge, could write a program to scrape all of the deleted pages on Wikipedia and store them in some public archive for people to view?

I'm sure it goes against their terms of service, but it would be really great for getting rid of censorship.
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lelandfe 1496 days ago
The trickiness comes from the deleted articles that really ought to stay dead – things like copyright infringement, doxxing, etc. Were I an admin, I'd be loath to cast the net too wide when resurfacing those removed pages.

That's the reason, I'm sure, even Deletionpedia has a removal process: https://deletionpedia.org/en/Deletionpedia.org:Removal_reque...

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Snowworm 1496 days ago
Btw. I was asking this in case deletionpedia hadn't managed to copy all of the articles.
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Kim_Bruning 1496 days ago
See some of the other comments here, there's actually a procedure to request deleted pages (that are otherwise not problematic).
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