Neil Harris wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
Mike Godwin wrote:
Dear folks,
In order to pursue our trademark registration in Canada, we would like
to document the earliest uses of Wikipedia by Canadians. Our Canadian
staff members (Sue Gardner and Jay Walsh) believe the first Canadian
uses of Wikipedia date back near the origins of
Wikipedia itself. Considering that Wikipedia started in early 2001,
this should mean that by early 2002 there was significant Canadian
use of the English-language Wikipedia project. I assume there was
also early use of the French-language Wikipedia project by French
Canadians -- that would also help us here.
Does anyone here have any thoughts about how we might document the
(likely) fact that Canadians were engaged with Wikipedia early on?
No doubt our good friend [[User:24.150.61.63]] will be happy to help you
out ;)
-- Tim Starling
Tracing of the IP address back to its owner, Cogeco Cable Solutions,
http://www.cogeco.ca/, should suffice to demonstrate that edits from
that IP address were made from Canada.
Well, that, and the fact that the guy is pretty famous in our corner of
the Internet, having gone off to terrorise a series of wikis after he left
Wikipedia. He's from Nova Scotia, a fact many Nova Scotians will be aware
of, since we blocked most of the province for the best part of a year to
get rid of the guy. You can find a plausible-looking biography here:
http://openpolitics.ca/Craig+Hubley
And an amusing response to that page here:
http://dowire.org/wiki/Craig_Hubley
At least Anthere got the joke without me having to explain it.
-- Tim Starling