Deletionpedia - An archive of deleted Wikipedia articles
Posted on | September 22, 2008 |
Can’t find that article you saw sometime back on Wikipedia? Move over to Deletionpedia - an archive of deleted Wikipedia articles. Deletionpedia is not a wiki, but mere a repository of articles deleted by the Wikipedia mods because it was irrelevent or not up to the standards. An automated bot uploads pages to deletionpedia as they are dropped at Wikipedia. Most of the article contents like info boxes, categrories and further references are preserved whereas images and other media are dropped.
It also preserves other useful deletion specific metadata organised in categories like what month the article was dropped from Wikipedia, how many editors worked on it, how many revisions it had, and how many days it was up on Wikipedia. However Depetionpedia isnt exactly a complete Wiki-morgue. The maintainers take care not to preserve articles which have copyright problems or are offensive in nature.
After the recent article in The Standard, Wikipedia editors nominated the Deletionpedia article on Wikipedia for speedy deletion. The page is still up, and it should be. With more than 64000 deleted articles in its archives, it should atleast deserve a mention in the massive Wiki.
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