We would like to make a retrospective on the most special events of these past 4 years on Wikipedia, with a special interest for the first 2 years.
For doing so, we need oldbies :-)
We would like 10 oldbies (at least 3 years on wikipedia) and ask them to cite between 1 to 10 special moments or special persons which they think either impacted a lot the direction of the project, or of the community. Fun moments, sad moments, critical moments, controversial moments, special persons, special citations, still used 3 years later.... OR just events which were strange and reflected a certain spirit at some point, a spirit perhaps lost now ? Just make us remember...
I invite anyone who have been more than 3 years on the project to reflect on his past, and help us to remember. The Quarto team will also try to contact some people, which do not necessarily answer spontaneously :-) If you think someone needs to be contacted, please ... euh... be a denonciator.
A couple of examples I can think of myself (Anthere, which will consider herself an oldbie)
* the letter of resignation of Larry Sanger * the goatse on the english wikipedia * the fork of the spanish project * some citations by The Cunctator * the major server break in december 2003 * Lir playing chess on her talk page * the polish cities dispute * Papot'ages on the french wikipedia
Of course, we will all have different special moments to cite :-) This is what could make it real fun.
Each point reported could be either
* a link, which could be self-sustainable or be accompanied with one sentence explanation (example : link to Larry Resignation on the mailing list. Example : a link to an old version of the project) * an image, with a legend or no legend at all (example : the first wikipedia logo. Example : a screen shot of Lir chess game) * a short story (Example : a summary of the spanish fork). This could be proposed by the oldbie himself * A citation
Please, make it short, make it patchwork, and make it non politically correct if you wish :-) (but stay civil).
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See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Retro
Thank you
Anthere
The retrospective is to commemorate the fourth Wikipedia Day, as well as the history of the project; so memories from Wikipedia days past, or from other anniversaries, are also welcome. Newbies, your memories count too; just not in the section marked "only old-timers can edit"...
SJ
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:15:26 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
We would like to make a retrospective on the most special events of these past 4 years on Wikipedia, with a special interest for the first 2 years.
For doing so, we need oldbies :-)
We would like 10 oldbies (at least 3 years on wikipedia) and ask them to cite between 1 to 10 special moments or special persons which they think either impacted a lot the direction of the project, or of the community. Fun moments, sad moments, critical moments, controversial moments, special persons, special citations, still used 3 years later.... OR just events which were strange and reflected a certain spirit at some point, a spirit perhaps lost now ? Just make us remember...
I invite anyone who have been more than 3 years on the project to reflect on his past, and help us to remember. The Quarto team will also try to contact some people, which do not necessarily answer spontaneously :-) If you think someone needs to be contacted, please ... euh... be a denonciator.
A couple of examples I can think of myself (Anthere, which will consider herself an oldbie)
* the letter of resignation of Larry Sanger * the goatse on the english wikipedia * the fork of the spanish project * some citations by The Cunctator * the major server break in december 2003 * Lir playing chess on her talk page * the polish cities dispute * Papot'ages on the french wikipediaOf course, we will all have different special moments to cite :-) This is what could make it real fun.
Each point reported could be either
* a link, which could be self-sustainable or be accompanied withone sentence explanation (example : link to Larry Resignation on the mailing list. Example : a link to an old version of the project) * an image, with a legend or no legend at all (example : the first wikipedia logo. Example : a screen shot of Lir chess game) * a short story (Example : a summary of the spanish fork). This could be proposed by the oldbie himself * A citation
Please, make it short, make it patchwork, and make it non politically correct if you wish :-) (but stay civil).
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Retro
Thank you
Anthere
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On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:04:46 -0500, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
The retrospective is to commemorate the fourth Wikipedia Day, as well as the history of the project; so memories from Wikipedia days past, or from other anniversaries, are also welcome. Newbies, your memories count too; just not in the section marked "only old-timers can edit"...
Mmm, and screenshots of Wikipedia /or other projects/ over time, on key days, would also be neat :-) Especially if you remember a discussion surrounding a design change. There is a "historical pages" section on Meta that might be helpful, and the archive.org image of "wikipedia.com" from 2001/2002.
SJ
Sj wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:04:46 -0500, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
The retrospective is to commemorate the fourth Wikipedia Day, as well as the history of the project; so memories from Wikipedia days past, or from other anniversaries, are also welcome. Newbies, your memories count too; just not in the section marked "only old-timers can edit"...
Mmm, and screenshots of Wikipedia /or other projects/ over time, on key days, would also be neat :-) Especially if you remember a discussion surrounding a design change. There is a "historical pages" section on Meta that might be helpful, and the archive.org image of "wikipedia.com" from 2001/2002.
There's a whole historical mirror of Wikipedia (though it's not really a wiki any more since it's completely frozen): http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage from December 20 http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_20, 2001, when we were proudly proclaiming over 19,000 articles. How many days does it take us to add 19,000 articles now? :)
The most notable difference, at least to me, between the archive.org version and the nostalgia version, is that the Nostalgia version doesn't appear to allow for browsing of non-English Wikipedias.
Mark
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:45:16 -0800, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Sj wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:04:46 -0500, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
The retrospective is to commemorate the fourth Wikipedia Day, as well as the history of the project; so memories from Wikipedia days past, or from other anniversaries, are also welcome. Newbies, your memories count too; just not in the section marked "only old-timers can edit"...
Mmm, and screenshots of Wikipedia /or other projects/ over time, on key days, would also be neat :-) Especially if you remember a discussion surrounding a design change. There is a "historical pages" section on Meta that might be helpful, and the archive.org image of "wikipedia.com" from 2001/2002.
There's a whole historical mirror of Wikipedia (though it's not really a wiki any more since it's completely frozen): http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage from December 20 http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_20, 2001, when we were proudly proclaiming over 19,000 articles. How many days does it take us to add 19,000 articles now? :) _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
at the time of Phase I and phase II, there were no links between the languages.
I think no languages other than english went to phase II (maybe german ?).
There were a couple of tiny differences between phase III nostalgia and phase I
Hmmmm, * no deletion * no protection * no renaming of pages * no separate space for user and encyclopedia * no talk page * no watch list * no contributor list * no categories * no related changes....
just minor issues :-)
Mark Williamson a écrit:
The most notable difference, at least to me, between the archive.org version and the nostalgia version, is that the Nostalgia version doesn't appear to allow for browsing of non-English Wikipedias.
Mark
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:45:16 -0800, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Sj wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:04:46 -0500, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
The retrospective is to commemorate the fourth Wikipedia Day, as well as the history of the project; so memories from Wikipedia days past, or from other anniversaries, are also welcome. Newbies, your memories count too; just not in the section marked "only old-timers can edit"...
Mmm, and screenshots of Wikipedia /or other projects/ over time, on key days, would also be neat :-) Especially if you remember a discussion surrounding a design change. There is a "historical pages" section on Meta that might be helpful, and the archive.org image of "wikipedia.com" from 2001/2002.
There's a whole historical mirror of Wikipedia (though it's not really a wiki any more since it's completely frozen): http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage from December 20 http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_20, 2001, when we were proudly proclaiming over 19,000 articles. How many days does it take us to add 19,000 articles now? :) _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:51:13 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
at the time of Phase I and phase II, there were no links between the languages.
I think no languages other than english went to phase II (maybe german ?).
No, not even German. German was however the first language other than English to go to phase III.
Andre Engels
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:15:26 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Each point reported could be either
* a link, which could be self-sustainable or be accompanied withone sentence explanation (example : link to Larry Resignation on the mailing list. Example : a link to an old version of the project) * an image, with a legend or no legend at all (example : the first wikipedia logo. Example : a screen shot of Lir chess game) * a short story (Example : a summary of the spanish fork). This could be proposed by the oldbie himself * A citation
But please don't take or handmake a screenshot of the goatse on the front page. :)
Tomer Chachamu a écrit:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:15:26 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Each point reported could be either
* a link, which could be self-sustainable or be accompanied withone sentence explanation (example : link to Larry Resignation on the mailing list. Example : a link to an old version of the project) * an image, with a legend or no legend at all (example : the first wikipedia logo. Example : a screen shot of Lir chess game) * a short story (Example : a summary of the spanish fork). This could be proposed by the oldbie himself * A citation
But please don't take or handmake a screenshot of the goatse on the front page. :)
Oh ? Euh... how did you guess ? (embarassing...)
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