December 14, 2010 Wiki

Wikipedia’s ancient history unearthed

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Wikipedia programmer Tim Starling has discovered some ancient backup files from the earliest months of Wikipedia. The files themselves (which I haven’t downloaded yet, if I ever will) are here (8.4 MB) and cover some of the earliest history of Wikipedia.  This should be very interesting indeed, if anyone decides to study what happened in those, um, interesting few months!

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Larry Sanger had written 96 articles for Larry Sanger Blog

I call myself an "Internet Knowledge Organizer." I started Wikipedia.org, Citizendium.org, and WatchKnow.org, among others. Now I am lucky enough to be able to work full-time on creating free materials for early education, which I am using with my two little boys and sharing with you.

3 Responses to "Wikipedia’s ancient history unearthed"
  1. Reply Tweets that mention Larry Sanger Blog » Wikipedia’s ancient history unearthed -- Topsy.com December 14, 2010 21:15 pm

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  2. Reply Gregory Kohs December 14, 2010 22:44 pm

    I think I beat you to this, Dr. Sanger.

    http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/original-copy-of-wikipedia-discovered

  3. Reply Larry Sanger December 14, 2010 23:44 pm

    Yes, you did.

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