[Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

[phoebe ayers]

FYI, there is an existing timeline at:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline

And lots of other wikipedia history pages on English, too.

:)
Phoebe

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Moka Pantages <mpantages at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> This is so exciting!  To Steven's point: we've also started a page
> where folks can add bits of interesting information as they excavate
> the files [1].   Can't wait to dig in!
>
> Congrats, Tim!
>
> [1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_the_Beginning
>
>
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:20:10 -0800
> From: Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered
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> This is fantastic, and the timing could not be better.
>
> If anyone finds anything noteworthy, please add it to the timeline of
> Wikipedia that we're building at the 10th anniversary wiki,[1] as well as
> the other tools for cataloging interesting tidbits from our history.[2]
>
> 1. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline
> 2. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>> > I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I
>> > opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete
>> > backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August 2001!