Are there any websites (not associated with the owners, of course!) that store and/or keep track of deleted questions and/or answers, like Deletionpedia does to Wikipedia, and YouTomb does to YouTube?
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asked Jul 29, 2009 at 0:45
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This post seems related: Building an archive of deleted questions.– MartinCommented Apr 6, 2018 at 7:45
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Do you -really- want to see the deleted content? Let me tell you...99% of it is garbage.
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I would suggest that you could mine the data dump if you are that interested. If the data is visible to 10K plus users, it should be available in the dump.
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Good suggestion but ... I know that with Wikipedia, deleted pages (apart from oversighted material) are visible to admins, but they aren't in the publicly accessible dumps. I'd have thought the same would be the case with Stack Overflow. Commented Jul 29, 2009 at 2:06
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That is very possible. Jeff points out in the June 4th blog that only data 'that is visible on the public website' is available in the dump. I guess it depends on what your definition of 'is' is.– akfCommented Jul 29, 2009 at 3:14
Deleted questions and answers are visible to users with at least 10k reputation points (and moderators)
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That doesn't help people with a reputation of less than 10K. Commented Jul 29, 2009 at 0:53