[Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

[ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ)]

And here is the first http://wikipedia.com archive link available at web
archive.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010727112808/http://www.wikipedia.org/


2010/12/15 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <vp2007 at gmail.com>

> 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
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>
>
> 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:
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>> <
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20030318055654/http://nupedia.com/pipermail/interpret-l.mbox/interpret-l.mbox
>> >
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>> <
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20020817032335/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/intlwiki-l.mbox/intlwiki-l.mbox
>> >
>>
>> -- Tim Starling
>>
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