Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-20 Thread Joseph Reagle
On Sunday, December 19, 2010, Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen wrote: > Should probably be København and not Křbenhavn Thanks Martin, that's evidence that there are still bugs, and that Python's Universal Encoding Detector is probabilistic! ___ WikiEN

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-18 Thread Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen
On 17 December 2010 21:18, Joseph Reagle wrote: > On Thursday, December 16, 2010, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> I have the first 10K edits up reconstructed in their various pages at: >>    http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/~reagle/wp-redux/ > > I fixed some of the encoding issues. The DB dump containe

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-17 Thread Joseph Reagle
On Thursday, December 16, 2010, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > I have the first 10K edits up reconstructed in their various pages at: >http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/~reagle/wp-redux/ I fixed some of the encoding issues. The DB dump contained different encodings. So, the encoding of each diff in

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-17 Thread Nathan
>From the interpe...@nupedia.com log posted the other day, written by Larry Sanger: "Second, a little bit of history will help to explain this as well. I was more or less offered the job of editing Nupedia when I was, as an ABD philosophy graduate student, soliciting Jimbo's (and other friends')

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-16 Thread Charles Matthews
On 16/12/2010 20:01, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Good news from Wiki-research-l in case you're not subscribed to it... > > Nemo > > Messaggio Originale > Oggetto: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [WikiEN-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered > Data: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:53:14 -0500 > Da: Jos

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Good news from Wiki-research-l in case you're not subscribed to it... Nemo Messaggio Originale Oggetto: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [WikiEN-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered Data: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:53:14 -0500 Da: Joseph Reagle I have the first 10K edits up reconstructed in thei

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread Andrew Gray
On 14 December 2010 22:02, Tim Starling wrote: > him. Articles were created in the following order: > > * HomePage > * WikiPedia > * PhilosophyAndLogic It's interesting to note our early priorities! http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/979602227.txt Two months later... http://en.wikipedia.

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread Mike Dupont
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > HomePage > * WikiPedia > * PhilosophyAndLogic > * UnitedStates > * PopularMusic > * SportS > * MathematicsAndStatistics > * CountriesOfTheWorld > * AaA > * AfghanistaN > * UuU > * TechnologY > * ComputinG > * ComputerSoftware > * TransporT >

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread Charles Matthews
I appreciate the challenge in getting old versions posted again. But I'm also interested in the folks, rather more than in CamelCase and UseMod. As I asked somewhere else recently, where are they now? I don't mean outing people; just what do we really know about the Old Bolsheviks, shot or not?

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread Tim Starling
On 15/12/10 04:17, emijrp wrote: > Hi; > > Thanks Tim. Congratulations. > > Is Wikipedia:UuU[1] now out-of-date? Yes, the earliest surviving edit is now "This is the new WikiPedia!", made to HomePage by office.bomis.com, presumably Jimmy. Larry signed a comment a short time later from a differen

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread FT2
Would prefer on its own wiki as this is comprehensive up to a given date. Maybe January2001.wikipedia.org -- immediate impact. (DNS software cannot handle 2001.wikipedia.org) FT2 On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:04 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Tim Starling > wrote: > >

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Tim Starling 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! > > This is exciting, because there

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread phoebe ayers
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Tim Starling 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! > > This is exciting, because there

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread emijrp
Hi; Thanks Tim. Congratulations. Is Wikipedia:UuU[1] now out-of-date? Regards, emijrp [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UuU 2010/12/14 Tim Starling > I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I > opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complet

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread FT2
Deferring to tech views but I'd have thought "almost certainly not". There may well be gaps after August 2001 for one thing; importing earlier records would incorrectly imply a complete history was shown of user and page edits. We probably could make a museum piece of them by creating " January200

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread WereSpielChequers
Can these edits be imported into wikipedia in time for the tenth anniversary? I'm assuming some will relate to pages that have since been moved or deleted so I appreciate this won't be an easy project. WereSpielChequers On 14 December 2010 16:16, Michael Snow wrote: > On 12/14/2010 7:54 AM, Tim

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread Michael Snow
On 12/14/2010 7:54 AM, Tim Starling 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! I guess producing database dumps was easier in

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread Chad
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Tim Starling 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! > > This is exciting, because ther