Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-17 Thread Joseph Reagle
On Thursday, December 16, 2010, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > I have the first 10K edits up reconstructed in their various pages at: >http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/~reagle/wp-redux/ I fixed some of the encoding issues. The DB dump contained different encodings. So, the encoding of each diff in

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-17 Thread Nathan
>From the interpe...@nupedia.com log posted the other day, written by Larry Sanger: "Second, a little bit of history will help to explain this as well. I was more or less offered the job of editing Nupedia when I was, as an ABD philosophy graduate student, soliciting Jimbo's (and other friends')

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups

2010-12-17 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
I note that among those earliest articles were separate articles on every single character in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, including "Bum Number 1" and "Passenger Number 1" through "Passenger Number 4". -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtip