Historical Wikipedia pages

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This is a repository for old Wikipedia pages and discusions that are obsolete or no longer serve an active purpose; a page museum of sorts. See also Wikipedia timeline and the History of Wikipedia for more history.

For more related content not yet archived here, see Wikimedian and the massive list at Wikipedia commentary.

Contents 1 Exhibits 1.1 Unsorted Exhibits 2 Special Exhibits 2.1 The GNE Project Files

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• /Wikipedia and Nupedia :

  Adding Wikipedia articles to Nupedia - back when Nupedia was going to be a "quality check" on Wikipedia

  Chalkboard candidates -- the Chalkboard was a wiki experiment of the Nupedia project

  Nupedia Translation -- using Wikipedia to translate Nupedia articles?

• /MediaWiki :

  WikipediaReasonable -- User:SunirShah opines that a wiki isn't approprate for an encyclopedia project. Have we proven him wrong, yet? :)

  WhichWikiShouldWeUse -- early discussion of switching from UseModWiki to other wiki software. Clifford Adams made it a moot point by incorporating the desired features into UseModWiki.

  ArbitraryLinkingDiscussion -- Discussions over switching from camel case to free links

• /Community :

  Larry's Wedding Card -- Larry Sanger gets married and gets a lovely wiki-wedding card

  OldWikiPediaLogo -- a brief history of the Wikipedia logo, with a diversion into American ethno-centricism

• /Humor and General Interest :

  Talk:List of famous people who had sex with animals -- a discussion about a useless list which evaded the deletionists for so long, it is hard to break its lucky streak.

  The best president to have a beer with -- a thread from w:Talk:Ronald Reagan that got a bit out of hand in June 2002 and spawned a discussion on meta.

  Campaign Against Covert Action -- the old headquarters of a covert group of unknown membership watching for covert action

• /Policy :

  Knocking her dead one on the nose each and every double trey - brief discussion about the inclusion of slang definitions.

  German names of places taken by Poland - an old thread of a debate which spawned a whole family of edit wars... which continue to this day.

[edit] Unsorted Exhibits

• Personal essays :

  Latino Unity

  Corporation SOS | The Magnificent 5 - by Antonio

  Dreaming doubt

• /Discussions :

  Censorship

  How to write about film (KQ and whoever cares to respond)

  Markup vs MetaForming

  Use pinyin not Wade-Giles

  Talk:Benjamin Netanyahu On Terrorism

[edit] Special Exhibits

[edit] The GNE Project Files

In the early days of Wikipedia, several people were working on the GNU encyclopedia project based on Richard Stallman's essay The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource. They used Wikipedia to develop some of their ideas. Stallman eventually recommended that people focus their efforts on Nupedia and Wikipedia, and so this project never got off the ground. These are the GNE Project's files:

• GNE Architecture
• GNE Preliminary DTD
• GNE Project Design
• GNU Encyclopedia Project Name
• GNU Encyclopedia Tech FAQ
• Proposed GNU Moderation System

Some GNE volunteers, including Tom Chance and Robert Scott, also began to develop a live system to experiment with the ideas being suggested on the mailing list. A half-working system is still online.