I've recently been digging in to some of the Wikipedia history (including pointing links from the Wikipedia timeline to Wayback machine's versions of the Nupedia list) but the one link I haven't been able to find is Wale's statement about the confusion resulting from Stallman's announcement: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/20/0319231_F.shtml -> http://www.themestream.com/gspd_browse/browse/view_article.gsp?c_id=299223 Unfortunately, that page is just ads and links now and Jimbo doesn't seem to have a copy and he recommended this list as a possible source.