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=== Past content of Wikipedia === Old, even obsolete, encyclopedia articles are highly valuable for historical research.<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 January 2021 |title=Encyclopedias Are Time Capsules β The Atlantic |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/encyclopedias-are-time-capsules/419619/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126035016/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/encyclopedias-are-time-capsules/419619/ |archive-date=26 January 2021 |access-date=25 June 2022 |website=[[The Atlantic]]}}</ref> For each Wikipedia article, past versions are accessible through the "View history" link at the top of the page. The full version history of all Wikipedia articles is also available for download as [[Wikipedia:Database download|data dumps]], in the form of compressed [[XML]] files.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Koehrsen |first=Will |date=2018-10-26 |title=Wikipedia Data Science: Working with the Worldβs Largest Encyclopedia |url=https://medium.com/towards-data-science/wikipedia-data-science-working-with-the-worlds-largest-encyclopedia-c08efbac5f5c |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=Towards Data Science |language=en}}</ref> In addition, the ZIM File Archive,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=ZIM File Archive: Free Data: Free Download, Borrow and Streaming |url=https://archive.org/details/zimarchive |access-date=25 June 2022 |website=Internet Archive |language=en}}</ref> at [[Internet Archive]], contains past full snapshots of Wikipedia as well as article selections, in multiple languages, from different years. They can be opened with [[Kiwix]] software. Between 2007 and 2011, three [[#English Wikipedia CD/DVD/Kiwix ZIM file releases|CD/DVD versions]] (called Wikipedia Version [[Wikipedia:Version 0.5|0.5]], [[Wikipedia:Version 0.7|0.7]] and [[Wikipedia:Version 0.8|0.8]]) containing a selection of articles from [[English Wikipedia]] were released. They became available as Kiwix ZIM files, both from the ZIM File Archive<ref name=":0" /> and from the Kiwix download site.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Index of /archive/zim/wikipedia |url=https://download.kiwix.org/archive/zim/wikipedia/ |access-date=25 June 2022 |website=download.kiwix.org |archive-date=22 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622124809/https://download.kiwix.org/archive/zim/wikipedia/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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