[Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/14/2010 5:14:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
tstarling at wikimedia.org writes:


> I've long suspected that the early FAQs and history pages gave Larry
> Sanger an exaggerated role because he wrote them himself. It will be
> interesting to see if any such conclusion can be drawn from the
> archives. Note that 979694938 was by dhcp058.246.lvcm.com, which
> appears to be Larry.
> 
> By the way, the numbers in the revisions, e.g. 979694938, are UNIX
> timestamps. That one was 17 Jan 2001, 01:28:58 UTC.
> 
> -- Tim Starling
> 


http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/wikipedia-timeline/4hmquk6fx4gu/631#vi
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http://web.archive.org/web/20040104160935/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia
http://web.archive.org/web/20011218003057/www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wikipedia 
(includes "History of" as a section)
http://web.archive.org/web/20011024225012/www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wikipedia 
earliest known attempt to write a History of Wikipedia, dated 24 Oct 2001