Meta:Historical
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 (1983–2024)
- 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- 2 July 2005: Wikimedia Quarto/Retro
- 19 July 2005: H.J.saga
- 3 September 2005: Announcement about my involvement in Wikipedia and Nupedia--Larry Sanger
- 3 September 2005: Status quo
- 3 September 2005: Wikimedia cache strategy evolution during 2003
- 3 September 2005: Separate database and web servers
- 3 September 2005: Cache bugs
- 3 September 2005: Foundation-L Proposal
- 3 September 2005: Upgrade discussion April 2004
- 3 September 2005: Hardware ordered January 2004
Events
edit- 9 January 2007: International logo contest
- 17 January 2007: Logo suggestions
- 24 January 2007: Fundraising/2006
- 8 February 2010: Logo/History
- 18 March 2021: List of Wikimedia birthdays
Essays
edit- 27 August 2008: Final international solution
- 27 August 2008: Visions
- 27 August 2008: Get rid of subpages entirely
- 27 August 2008: Threats/yue
- 28 August 2008: Cutting each other a bit of slack
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.