FYI, there is an existing timeline at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline
And lots of other wikipedia history pages on English, too.
:) Phoebe
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Moka Pantages mpantages@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is so exciting! To Steven's point: we've also started a page where folks can add bits of interesting information as they excavate the files [1]. Can't wait to dig in!
Congrats, Tim!
[1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_the_Beginning
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:20:10 -0800 From: Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: AANLkTin9CjXR1S_eCfR3nR6Xmt6C4o=6oHDhTXP4JPzL@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
This is fantastic, and the timing could not be better.
If anyone finds anything noteworthy, please add it to the timeline of Wikipedia that we're building at the 10th anniversary wiki,[1] as well as the other tools for cataloging interesting tidbits from our history.[2]
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August 2001!