The retrospective is to commemorate the fourth Wikipedia Day, as well as the history of the project; so memories from Wikipedia days past, or from other anniversaries, are also welcome. Newbies, your memories count too; just not in the section marked "only old-timers can edit"...
SJ
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:15:26 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
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 wikipediaOf 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 withone 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).
See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WQ/Retro
Thank you
Anthere
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