[WikiEN-l] "Hello world?"

[geni]

On 13 January 2011 23:27, David Lindsey <dvdlndsy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Assuredly, Gardner is just repeating what Wales has told her as she was not
> involved in the early stages of Wikipedia.  This leaves us with Wales's
> word.  Uncharitably, you can assume that this is just a half truth or
> falsehood designed to advance the sole founder theory; however, it is
> possible that the purported edit happened not on Wikipedia but on the
> short-lived wiki hosted at Nupedia, which would not even have been called
> Wikipedia at the time.  Unless (until?) a full backup of that wiki surfaces,
> we have nothing to go on.
>
> All that I can find of the old NupediaWiki is a version preserved on the new
> Wikipedia within the Starling archive.  The text "Hello World!" is not found
> in that version, though it's quite possible that someone else removed it
> after Wales added it.
>
> Either way, "Hello World!" was not the first Wikipedia edit.  It may have
> been the first NupediaWiki edit, but that's not quite the same thing.
>
>

I seem to recall jimbo stating at some point that the edit in question
was deleted (rather than lost).


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geni