[Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

[ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ)]

I hope some of you may have seen/discussed  these pages (as well as the
connected pages):

http://web.archive.org/web/20010418152404/www.nupedia.com/

upto

 http://web.archive.org/web/20030730075209/http://www.nupedia.org/

Of course the domain name then, was nupedia.org.

-vp


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 02:30, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On 15/12/10 07:36, Henning Schlottmann wrote:
> > On 14.12.2010 16:54, Tim Starling 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!
> >
> > That's wonderful news. Is this for enWP only or were all languages in
> > one database back then?
>
> Just English, unfortuately.
>
> You may find this interesting:
>
> <
> http://web.archive.org/web/20030318055654/http://nupedia.com/pipermail/interpret-l.mbox/interpret-l.mbox
> >
>
> <
> http://web.archive.org/web/20020817032335/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/intlwiki-l.mbox/intlwiki-l.mbox
> >
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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