[Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

[emijrp]

Is there any database backup of Nupedia? Or the articles were posted as HTML
pages?

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

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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