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Re:Wikipedia over DNS (2008) by dgl on Saturday March 09, 2024 @05:04PM (#39655097)
While the serving code still works the code to download Wikipedia dumps and summarise them has bitrotted.

The database is circa 2013, so you’re exploring a nearly 11 year old summary of Wikipedia!

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Re:Wikipedia over DNS (2008) by eesmith on Sunday March 10, 2024 @03:49PM (#39662043)
I see what you mean - the quoted "Greenland" text does not match the current form but does match the one ca. 2013.

It looks like FOO (all caps) redirected to Forward Observation Officer on July 2008‎, says https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FOO&action=histor... so there was a narrow window when your "foo" example worked as described, before you updated the dump to the then-new redirect.

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