[WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups

[Thomas Dalton]

On 20 December 2010 01:38, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 18/12/10 00:14, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
>> I note that among those earliest articles were separate articles on
>> every single character in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, including "Bum
>> Number 1" and "Passenger Number 1" through "Passenger Number 4".
>
> Tim Shell created about 200 articles on Atlas Shrugged. They were left
> as they were until 2003, when Catherine Munro took on the huge task of
> cleaning them up and merging them.

Why does the word "Pokemon" spring unbidden to my mind? ;) It seems
history does repeat itself.