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). ------- See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Retro Thank you Anthere