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Deletionpedia v2 is a wiki is to rescue articles deleted from Wikipedia. It was started by Guaka on December 24th 2013 and so far we've been rescuing 91,249 articles.

Deletionpedia v1 was doing this for a while in 2008 but has stopped working (most rescues in 2008, last edit in 2012). Guaka (talk) plans to keep v2 going for a bit longer.

Unlike DPv1 people are allowed to edit v2, but it's advisable to wait until articles have been definitely deleted on Wikipedia. If an article is not deleted we won't delete the article here, we'll just put a template linking back to Wikipedia. Like that you can still go into the history of an article and find your edits. It also helps when an article is deleted 3 months later anyway (as is very often the case).

Click on Random page to get an idea about what kind of stuff gets deleted on Wikipedia. A lot of that are great quality articles written by people who care and spent a lot of time on them, including research and adding references.

Related projects

The original Deletionpedia, last edit in 2012 was only running in 2008
Pluspedia.org, a German project to create a wiki without relevance criteria
Prepedia.org, a Polish project

TODO

Logo
Create many templates
other languages: nl, de, fr, es, it, pt

Bot

use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion#Current_and_past_Articles_for_deletion_.28AfD.29_discussions

Copy action

Parse (DONE) and copy (DONE) all articles from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/Today
Record at least the username who created the article
Later: keep a list of users who add the AfD notifications (nice for stats)
Exclude articles with copyright issues
Change (most) wikilinks to link to Wikipedia instead

Deletion action

Check articles copied 2 weeks ago, if they still exist and the "Article for deletion" template is gone the article can be removed on deleted.wiki.yt

Related projects

TODO

Bot

Copy action

Deletion action

Some rescued pages