On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Sam Blacketer
<sam.blacketer(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On 8/18/08, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
2008/8/18 Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com>om>:
Looks like it predates our ability to easily find
it - would
nostalgia.wp be worth looking at?
...which promptly takes us back to late November:
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_W._Bush&diff=17…
Nostalgia doesn't seem to go back beyond c. Nov 20th.
If you look at the 'HomePage' on nostalgiawiki
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage, it seems from the note on the
bottom that vandalism was well known:
"Note: Unless you have the administrator password, you cannot currently edit
this page. While this is unfortunate, it has turned out to be necessary to
prevent vandalism of this page, which has occurred on several occasions."
--
The first message I found about vandalism from Jimmy, apparently
related to a discussion onwiki, was from Oct. 2001:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000624.html
when the homepage was not yet locked. The very next message was the
famous "temporary measures" one, when adminship was instituted:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000625.html
Note that this was five months or so after the creation of other
language Wikipedias, Wiktionary, and about four months after kpjas
suggested a database infrastructure might be necessary:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-June/000185.html
There are several people from the beginning who are still active on
this list who would have a better idea of when vandalism started,
though. My guess would be with the first slashdotting.
( as a side note, most of my favorite messages ever to the list come
from those early months, such as Larry asking the president to correct
his own biography:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000069.html
and Jimmy asking "so what's this list for, anyway?
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-January/000011.html )
phoebe