On 13 January 2011 23:27, David Lindsey <dvdln...@gmail.com> wrote: > Assuredly, Gardner is just repeating what Wales has told her as she was not > involved in the early stages of Wikipedia. This leaves us with Wales's > word. Uncharitably, you can assume that this is just a half truth or > falsehood designed to advance the sole founder theory; however, it is > possible that the purported edit happened not on Wikipedia but on the > short-lived wiki hosted at Nupedia, which would not even have been called > Wikipedia at the time. Unless (until?) a full backup of that wiki surfaces, > we have nothing to go on. > > All that I can find of the old NupediaWiki is a version preserved on the new > Wikipedia within the Starling archive. The text "Hello World!" is not found > in that version, though it's quite possible that someone else removed it > after Wales added it. > > Either way, "Hello World!" was not the first Wikipedia edit. It may have > been the first NupediaWiki edit, but that's not quite the same thing. > >
I seem to recall jimbo stating at some point that the edit in question was deleted (rather than lost). -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
