[Wikipedia-l] Retrospective

[Mark Williamson]

The most notable difference, at least to me, between the archive.org
version and the nostalgia version, is that the Nostalgia version
doesn't appear to allow for browsing of non-English Wikipedias.

Mark

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:45:16 -0800, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Sj wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 16:04:46 -0500, Sj <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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"...
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Mmm, and screenshots of Wikipedia /or other projects/ over time, on
> >key days, would also be neat :-)  Especially if you remember a
> >discussion surrounding a design change.  There is a "historical pages"
> >section on Meta that might be helpful, and the archive.org  image of
> >"wikipedia.com" from 2001/2002.
> >
> >
> There's a whole historical mirror of Wikipedia (though it's not really a
> wiki any more since it's completely frozen):
> http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePage
> from December 20 <http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_20>,
> 2001, when we were proudly proclaiming over 19,000 articles. How many
> days does it take us to add 19,000 articles now? :)
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