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It appears that Wikipedia does keep an archive ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restorin...

However ...

> A message by Wikipedia system administrator Brion Vibber from January 2007 warned that deleted revisions could theoretically be cleared without warning at any time, and a script exists to perform this function. However in practice they have only been cleared twice, both times due to technical issues – once on 3 December 2003, because the Wikipedia database was transferred to a new server, and once on 8 June 2004 due to a database crash.

This is, of course, different from the revision history for an article, which shows each edit and is available for public inspection, e.g., ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deep_learning&off...



>Only administrators, checkusers, and oversighters can view the content of deleted pages.

Almost, but no cigar :(




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