Paul Houle wrote:
Hi, I've been thinking about the early
history of Wikipedia and
about what which sort of topics got written early on. I'm wondering if
there is an easy way to find the first N wikipedia topics (where N is
say 100,000) in the order they were created.
For which were born in phase3, it's quite easy as it will match with
lower revision ids.
Old projects which came from usemodwiki had an import of the
then-current data, and history was imported later. So you have no other
way than looking at edit time.
For enwiki, you may prefer looking at the old backup recently discovered
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-December/063088.html