Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-08 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 03:03, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: That would require a Sanger/Wales collaboration. Hah! That'd be the day! ;-) g ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-07 Thread Tyler
How do you edit Wikipedia anonymously? When I click edit this page, a blank edit box appears, and the page, including wiki markup, appears below the box. And, just for my info, how many of you on this list have heard of Uncyclopedia? ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-07 Thread masti
On 03/08/2010 12:17 AM, Tyler wrote: How do you edit Wikipedia anonymously? we do not. We are registered users When I click edit this page, a blank edit box appears, and the page, including wiki markup, appears below the box. And, just for my info, how many of you on this list have heard of

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-07 Thread Tyler
How come, when I go to the edit history of the main page, I can't find a revision from 2001? Only 2002. Is it because of that software change? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-07 Thread K. Peachey
The main page is generally generated with templates, so there are little to none direct edits to the page. -Peachey ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-07 Thread Tyler
That's not what I asked. I said, in 2001, Wikipedia was founded, right? The earliest edit in edit history is 2002. What was the home page in 2001 then? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-07 Thread Svip
On 8 March 2010 01:14, Tyler programmer...@comcast.net wrote: That's not what I asked.  I said, in 2001, Wikipedia was founded, right? The earliest edit in edit history is 2002.  What was the home page in 2001 then? Since you are talking about the software, MediaWiki, maybe you ought to look

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-07 Thread Chad
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Tyler programmer...@comcast.net wrote: That's not what I asked.  I said, in 2001, Wikipedia was founded, right? The earliest edit in edit history is 2002.  What was the home page in 2001 then? ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-07 Thread Liam Wyatt
Very early on in the history of the project, there was only one server and it was shared with the parent company (Bomis). Once it filled up it was simply cleared out. Unfortunately, this means that the earliest edits to the English Wikipedia are now lost :-( Ward Cunningham did the same thing with

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-07 Thread Austin Hair
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Tyler programmer...@comcast.net wrote: How come, when I go to the edit history of the main page, I can't find a revision from 2001? Only 2002.  Is it because of that software change? You hit the nail on the head. Revisions from the UseModWiki days are sketchy

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-07 Thread geni
On 8 March 2010 00:14, Tyler programmer...@comcast.net wrote: That's not what I asked.  I said, in 2001, Wikipedia was founded, right? The earliest edit in edit history is 2002.  What was the home page in 2001 then? Nope oldest edit is 2001: