[Wikipedia-l] Retrospective

[Sj]

The retrospective is to commemorate the fourth Wikipedia Day, as well
as the history of the project; so memories from Wikipedia days past,
or from other anniversaries, are also welcome.  Newbies, your memories
count too; just not in the section marked "only old-timers can
edit"...

SJ


On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:15:26 +0100, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> We would like to make a retrospective on the most special events of
> these past 4 years on Wikipedia, with a special interest for the first 2
> years.
> 
> For doing so, we need oldbies :-)
> 
> We would like 10 oldbies (at least 3 years on wikipedia) and ask them to
> cite between 1 to 10 special moments or special persons which they think
> either impacted a lot the direction of the project, or of the community.
> Fun moments, sad moments, critical moments, controversial moments,
> special persons, special citations, still used 3 years later.... OR just
> events which were strange and reflected a certain spirit at some point,
> a spirit perhaps lost now ? Just make us remember...
> 
> I invite anyone who have been more than 3 years on the project to
> reflect on his past, and help us to remember. The Quarto team will also
> try to contact some people, which do not necessarily answer
> spontaneously :-) If you think someone needs to be contacted, please ...
> euh... be a denonciator.
> 
> A couple of examples I can think of myself (Anthere, which will consider
> herself an oldbie)
> 
>      * the letter of resignation of Larry Sanger
>      * the goatse on the english wikipedia
>      * the fork of the spanish project
>      * some citations by The Cunctator
>      * the major server break in december 2003
>      * Lir playing chess on her talk page
>      * the polish cities dispute
>      * Papot'ages on the french wikipedia
> 
> Of course, we will all have different special moments to cite :-) This
> is what could make it real fun.
> 
> Each point reported could be either
> 
>      * a link, which could be self-sustainable or be accompanied with
> one sentence explanation (example : link to Larry Resignation on the
> mailing list. Example : a link to an old version of the project)
>      * an image, with a legend or no legend at all (example : the first
> wikipedia logo. Example : a screen shot of Lir chess game)
>      * a short story (Example : a summary of the spanish fork). This
> could be proposed by the oldbie himself
>      * A citation
> 
> Please, make it short, make it patchwork, and make it non politically
> correct if you wish :-) (but stay civil).
> 
> -------
> 
> See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Retro
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Anthere
> 
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