[Foundation-l] Happy Wikipedia Day!

Sat Jan 15 11:16:00 UTC 2005

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Wikipedia went live four years ago today, on January 15, 2001.

Amazingly, this crazy project we've gotten ourselves into is still on 
the web, not _completely_ filled with Pokémon stubs and crackpot rants, 
and even remains free of advertisements, supported by donations and a 
lot of hard work.

Presented for your pleasure:
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/

This is a dump of the English Wikipedia page database from December 20, 
2001 -- the oldest complete copy I was able to find. It's actually 
running on the current MediaWiki software, so as a conversion necessity 
some pages have been altered to make links work correctly. (Due to 
limitations in the original conversion script, this version may 
actually contain some data which is missing or corrupted in the main 
database history on en.wikipedia.org.)

You can find even older, though more fragmentary, bits of Ancient 
Wikipedia using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010331173908/http://www.wikipedia.com/

Happy Editing, everybody!

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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