[Wikipedia-l] Retrospective
Mark Williamson
node.ue at gmail.com
Mon Mar 21 03:45:14 UTC 2005
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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