On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:37 PM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 March 2010 00:14, Tyler <programmer...@comcast.net> wrote: > > That's not what I asked. I said, in 2001, Wikipedia was founded, right? > The earliest edit in >edit history is 2002. What was the home page in 2001 > then? > > > > Nope oldest edit is 2001: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:UuU&oldid=291430
Of interest is this edit to Nupedia from August 8, 2000 to the article Hydatius which I just found while trawling archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20000817023612/http://www.nupedia.com/newest.phtml There is also a Nupedia edit on July 25, 2000 to the article atonality but its text is not available. I believe these should be considered the earliest edits in Wikipedia's history, the evolutionary differences between Nupedia/Wikipedia notwithstanding. I also find it interesting that the articles on Nupedia and History of Wikipedia do not mention that before Nupedia was an encyclopedia it was a directory to sources of factual information on the internet, as is easily verified on archive.org. I wonder, given the controversy between Sanger/Wales regarding cofounderness, if the actual brainstorming and prototyping processes early on in Wikipedia's history are actually documented. That would require a Sanger/Wales collaboration. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
