[Wikipedia-l] Hunting for my first edit, is there a Wikimuseum of ancient data?

Sun Jan 2 02:06:37 UTC 2005

I have been asked on several occasions what my first edit on Wikipedia was, 
and I admit to a certain curiousity myself. The problem is that I really 
don't remember it; I believe I first came to Wikipedia back in the 
UseModWiki days and IIRC the old edit histories from that era weren't 
imported into the current database when the transition was made to PHP wiki 
due to format incompatibilities. I've looked through 
http://download.wikimedia.org/ and didn't see any obvious links for getting 
anything that old, is there anyplace where I might find it?

Alternately, I recall that in the UseModWiki days I had a "userpage" at 
[[Bryan Derksen]] (or possibly [[BryanDerksen]]) that I deleted as soon as 
there was support for the User: subspace in the new software. It may have 
some clues in it, but stuff that's been deleted for a long time appears to 
be no longer undeleteable by mere admins such as myself. Is there a 
database with ancient deletes in them kicking around somewhere? This would 
be handy for an unrelated reason too, there're some old RfC pages I 
participated in once upon a time that have been similarly deleted that I 
wouldn't mind having copies of for future reference.