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Wikipedia’s ancient history unearthed

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

“Internet Knowledge Organizer.” Currently President of the Knowledge Standards Foundation, started Wikipedia and various other educational and reference sites. Ph.D., Philosophy, Ohio State, 2000. [read more]

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Please do dive in (politely). I want your reactions!

3 responses to “Wikipedia’s ancient history unearthed”

  1. Tweets that mention Larry Sanger Blog » Wikipedia’s ancient history unearthed — Topsy.com

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  2. Gregory Kohs

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

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

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  3. Larry Sanger

    Yes, you did.

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