FYI, there is an existing timeline at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline
And lots of other wikipedia history pages on English, too. :) Phoebe On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Moka Pantages <mpanta...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > This is so exciting! To Steven's point: we've also started a page > where folks can add bits of interesting information as they excavate > the files [1]. Can't wait to dig in! > > Congrats, Tim! > > [1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_the_Beginning > > > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:20:10 -0800 > From: Steven Walling <steven.wall...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <aanlktin9cjxr1s_ecfr3nr6xmt6c4o=6ohdhtxp4j...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > This is fantastic, and the timing could not be better. > > If anyone finds anything noteworthy, please add it to the timeline of > Wikipedia that we're building at the 10th anniversary wiki,[1] as well as > the other tools for cataloging interesting tidbits from our history.[2] > > 1. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline > 2. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Tim Starling <tstarl...@wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> > I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I >> > opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete >> > backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August 2001! _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
