phoebe ayers wrote:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:40 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Sam Blacketer sam.blacketer@googlemail.com wrote:
On 8/18/08, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
2008/8/18 Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com:
Looks like it predates our ability to easily find it - would nostalgia.wp be worth looking at?
...which promptly takes us back to late November:
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_W._Bush&diff=178...
Nostalgia doesn't seem to go back beyond c. Nov 20th.
If you look at the 'HomePage' on nostalgiawiki http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage, it seems from the note on the bottom that vandalism was well known:
"Note: Unless you have the administrator password, you cannot currently edit this page. While this is unfortunate, it has turned out to be necessary to prevent vandalism of this page, which has occurred on several occasions." --
The first message I found about vandalism from Jimmy, apparently related to a discussion onwiki, was from Oct. 2001: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000624.html
As a followup: The first message mentioning possible vandalism from Larry, however, was much earlier: March 2001. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-March/000025.html
The first copyvio was apparently in Feb. 2001: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-February/000020.html
-- phoebe
What I find most nostalgia-inducing about Larry's message is the request to "log in more frequently". This reminds me there was a time when one could follow each and every edit, by everybody, with relatively scarce expenditure of time.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen