Meta:Historical
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This is an index to pages of historical interest, documented and cross-referenced. Historical pages should be documented in the {{historical header}} template, and added to the relevant index and category.
This page includes old Wikipedia pages and discussions that are obsolete or no longer serve an active purpose.
For similar pages not yet listed here, see Wikimedian and the indexes below.
Index
edit- Histories
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- Wikipedia (2001–2025)
- Wikipedia timeline
- Wikipedia logo (2001–2003)
- User rights (2004–2008)
- Stewards (2005–2010)
- Essays
- Historical pages
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- Archives index: list of Category:Archives pages by creation date
- Deleted
Log of recent changes
editProposed
edit- 25 February 2025: Estimating article numbers
- 25 February 2025: An impending scalability problem
- 25 February 2025: MetaWikipedia
- 25 February 2025: Wikipedia metadata management
- 25 February 2025: Announcement about my involvement in Wikipedia and Nupedia--Larry Sanger
- 25 February 2025: My resignation--Larry Sanger
- 25 February 2025: Best cases
- 25 February 2025: Status quo
- 25 February 2025: Advertising on Wikipedia
- 25 February 2025: Wikipedia timeline
Events
edit- 25 February 2025: Logo suggestions
- 25 February 2025: International logo contest
- 25 February 2025: Logo/History
- 25 February 2025: Fundraising/2006
- 25 February 2025: List of Wikimedia birthdays
Essays
edit- 25 February 2025: Cutting each other a bit of slack
- 25 February 2025: Moving commentary out of Wikipedia
- 25 February 2025: Get rid of subpages entirely
- 25 February 2025: Almanac-type information
- 25 February 2025: Final international solution
Exhibits
edit- Monitoring
- /Why Wikipedia runs slow (used sporadically, and then all at one in July 2009)
- /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 appropriate 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.
- Meta-Wiki project pages, processes, tests etc.
- /Meta/MetaWikipedia utilities/user IDs to be deleted: context unknown, apparently some problems with Phase II initial implementation.
Unsorted Exhibits
edit- 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
The GNE Project Files
editPages related to the early GNU encyclopedia project (GNE project) , can now be found in the English Wikipedia historical archive.