Looks like it's in the WayBack Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110614170356/http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarlin... http://web.archive.org/web/20110614170356/http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/wikipedia-logs-2001-08-17.7z
But it would still be nice to know that the archives are still maintained by Wikimedia though.
On Oct 7, 2021, at 8:58 PM, Denny Vrandečić dvrandecic@wikimedia.org wrote:
Or even better, if there is a Web accessible version of these early edits.
On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 5:57 PM Denny Vrandečić <dvrandecic@wikimedia.org mailto:dvrandecic@wikimedia.org> wrote: I wanted to see the beginning of the article about Jupiter.
When I go to Jupiter's revision history and click on oldest, I get here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jupiter&dir=prev&action=h... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jupiter&dir=prev&action=history
which takes me to the revision as of November 5, 2001:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jupiter&oldid=332461507 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jupiter&oldid=332461507
Given that the the article at this point doesn't look like this were the original edition, I expect more history to be in the UseMod archives.
I remembered Tim Starling announced a few years ago that he found a few old archives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia%27s_oldest_articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia%27s_oldest_articles
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-December/063088.html https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-December/063088.html
Unfortunately, that link has gone stale.
Does anyone know where these archives are?
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