The original ingest of Wikipedia 2010 into fox's 4 production shards
was 2026-04-27 21:33-23:13 UTC — ~100 minutes wall, 4-way parallel,
3.47M docs / 14.12M chunks. Captured here because the audit chain is
the only durable record but querying 3.47M rows to recover the
headline number is friction; one line in a doc removes it.
Also informs #000065 reshard planning: ingest rate ceiling on real
XML workload is ~2,350 chunks/sec aggregate (4-way), vs the
~6,400 chunks/sec the M-sweep bench measured on the 2003 cur dump
(which skips XML parsing). The teleport-style reshard should beat
both ceilings because it's just SQLite INSERT throughput, no XML
parse + canonicalize + edge extraction.
New file: docs/corpus-history.md. Indexed in CLAUDE.md docs section.
Append-only convention; future migrations + cold-pack runs add
entries here so the operator log isn't only in the audit chain.
Derivation query (sqlite3 audit_events) embedded in the entry so
future re-derivation is one copy-paste.
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