[Foundation-l] First use/contribution by Canadians of Wikipedia

[Dan Collins]

On Feb 18, 2008 1:58 PM, Dan Collins <en.wp.st47 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2008 1:37 PM, Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear folks,
> >
> > In order to pursue our trademark registration in Canada, we would like
> > to document the earliest uses of Wikipedia by Canadians.  Our Canadian
> > staff members (Sue Gardner and Jay Walsh) believe the  first Canadian
> > uses of Wikipedia date back near the origins of
> > Wikipedia itself.  Considering that Wikipedia started in early 2001,
> > this should mean that by early 2002 there was significant Canadian
> > use  of the English-language Wikipedia project.  I assume there was
> > also early use of the French-language Wikipedia project by French
> > Canadians -- that would also help us here.
> >
> > Does anyone here have any thoughts about how we might document the
> > (likely) fact that Canadians were engaged with Wikipedia early on?
> >
> >
> > --Mike Godwin
> > General Counsel
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> You could look up old edits by IP address, perhaps by using Wikiscanner,
> which reveals this from a college in ontario:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=6262470
> http://samspade.org/whois/142.204.72.75
>
> You could also look for old wikipedians in the list of canadians:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_Wikipedians
> In a few moments, I'll try to coax some information out of the database
> about that.
>
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Addendum: it seems the oldest edit by anyone on that list is
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gradient&diff=prev&oldid=1069992
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Energy&diff=prev&oldid=1112570

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