[Wikipedia-l] Retrospective

[Anthere]

We would like to make a retrospective on the most special events of 
these past 4 years on Wikipedia, with a special interest for the first 2 
years.

For doing so, we need oldbies :-)

We would like 10 oldbies (at least 3 years on wikipedia) and ask them to 
cite between 1 to 10 special moments or special persons which they think 
either impacted a lot the direction of the project, or of the community. 
Fun moments, sad moments, critical moments, controversial moments, 
special persons, special citations, still used 3 years later.... OR just 
events which were strange and reflected a certain spirit at some point, 
a spirit perhaps lost now ? Just make us remember...

I invite anyone who have been more than 3 years on the project to 
reflect on his past, and help us to remember. The Quarto team will also 
try to contact some people, which do not necessarily answer 
spontaneously :-) If you think someone needs to be contacted, please ... 
euh... be a denonciator.


A couple of examples I can think of myself (Anthere, which will consider 
herself an oldbie)

     * the letter of resignation of Larry Sanger
     * the goatse on the english wikipedia
     * the fork of the spanish project
     * some citations by The Cunctator
     * the major server break in december 2003
     * Lir playing chess on her talk page
     * the polish cities dispute
     * Papot'ages on the french wikipedia

Of course, we will all have different special moments to cite :-) This 
is what could make it real fun.


Each point reported could be either

     * a link, which could be self-sustainable or be accompanied with 
one sentence explanation (example : link to Larry Resignation on the 
mailing list. Example : a link to an old version of the project)
     * an image, with a legend or no legend at all (example : the first 
wikipedia logo. Example : a screen shot of Lir chess game)
     * a short story (Example : a summary of the spanish fork). This 
could be proposed by the oldbie himself
     * A citation

Please, make it short, make it patchwork, and make it non politically 
correct if you wish :-) (but stay civil).


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See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Retro

Thank you

Anthere