You might be interested in talking with Graham87 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Graham87>, who's done a lot of work with importing old edits from nostalgia.wiki.
--Ed On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]> wrote: > Le lundi 6 juillet 2015, 15:50:21 Joe Sutherland a écrit : > > It's kind of odd that there's no list anywhere already; I can't be the > > first person to ask this! But that would be much appreciated Guillaume :) > > So, I've got a preliminary list, but it looks like we might need to find a > better way of identifying the creation date than the earliest timestamp, > because it gives some weird results: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P895 > > Here's an excerpt from the top of the list: > > 19700101000000: zhwikisource > 20010115000000: arwiki > 20010116200833: enwiki > 20010116200833: nostalgiawiki > 20010223175216: enwikibooks > 20010308131402: elwiki > 20010317014148: cawiki > 20010402182741: dewiki > > BUT: > * zhwikisource wasn't created in 1970 (or we've been lied to for a long > time). > * arwiki wasn't created before enwiki, and enwikibooks and elwiki weren't > created before cawiki. > * nostalgia wiki has exactly the same earliest timestamp as enwiki? > Suspicious. > * Some wikis don't return an earliest timestamp at all (?!), see bottom of > the > list. > > So there definitely are oddities; they're probably due to errors with > timestamps, or servers losing time, etc. (see > https://www.facebook.com/gpaumier/posts/10154157729588475 for a similar > issue > I recently discovered, and that Tim helped resolve). Therefore, revision > timestamps are probably not a reliable way to determine the creation date > of a > wiki. > > As a wikiarchaeologist, I do find this kind of stuff incredibly > interesting, > though, so I'll look into it further during my Copious Free Time™, but > likely > after Wikimania. (I like the fact that I seem to have inadvertently > discovered > a way to identify all edits across wikis with an aberrant timestamp!) > > -- > Guillaume Paumier > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > -- Ed Erhart Editorial Intern Wikimedia Foundation
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