[Wikide-l] [OnTopic] Wie Wikipedia begann

[Mathias Schindler]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jaranda/Wikipedia%27s_first_IRC_chat

On 1 April 2006, the log for the first ever chat session on #wikipedia 
was painstakingly recovered from a corrupt hard disk. Starting mere 
seconds before Wikipedia went online, it shows us a fascinating glimpse 
at the early days of the site.


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<jwales> Anyway, just written a HomePage.
<Larry_Sanger> "Welcome to WikiPedia! We're writing a complete 
encyclopedia from scratch,
collaboratively. We started work TODAY. We want to make over 100,000 
pages. So, let's get to
work! Write a little (or a lot) about what you know!"
<Larry_Sanger> You're crazy, Jimbo.
<jwales> I don't see why 100,000 isn't a reasonable target. Granted, 
it'll take us 8 years at
the least to do it, but that's still an incredibly fast amount of progress.
<Larry_Sanger> Will Wikipedia even be around in 2009?
<jwales> Of course. And if it gets REALLY popular, we might even reach a 
million!

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