Oh, this nostalgia wp still exists, yes.
I thought about a tool or a user surface where I simply type
"2003-01-01" (as an example) and Wikipedia will show me the articles
from that point of time. I understand that there might be problems
with deleted images, merged articles, right. But it would still be
interesting enough, certainly the older Wikipedia grows. I do not know
so much about technical matters, but I can not imagine that such a
tool would be very complicated. (?)
Greetings
Ziko
2008/8/25 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Nikola Smolenski
<smolensk(a)eunet.yu> wrote:
Ziko van Dijk wrote:
Once I had this idea: a tool that shows Wikipedia
at a certain, chosen
point of time. For example, I'd like to browse through Wikipedia
seeing always the state of January 1st 2003. Image if Wikipedia were
already decades old and we could read the state of 1965. (One can
always use the version history, yes, but that's more work for the
reader.) Maybe this is something more interesting to a historian like
me than to other people. :-)
Me too, that would be excellent :) Not sure how light on the database it
could be made, but it shouldn't be too hard to make static pages frozen
at a certain point of time.
Like
http://nostalgia.wikimedia.org, but for more dates? :)
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