Wikipedia:Historical archive
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This page is a co-ordination point for pages that were previously in the Wikipedia: namespace, but have become obsolete and archived. Regular articles are not archived here or elsewhere because their previous versions may be viewed in the history tab.
Note these pages are preserved primarily for historical interest. Policies contained within may be out-dated.
All page histories still contain their original revisions, with some dating back to Wikipedia's early days.
Archived pages[edit]
Brilliant prose[edit]
- /BrilliantProse – A system started by Larry Sanger in January 2001 to recognize Wikipedia's best content, which was an ad hoc collection of articles added to the Brilliant prose page by various editors.
- /Refreshing brilliant prose – A review of all brilliant prose articles was held in late 2003.
WikiProjects[edit]
- /Wikipedia teamwork – early musings on collaboration
- /WikiProject proposal – An early blueprint for WikiProjects, written by Manning Bartlett
- WikiProject Sports on 25 September 2001 – The first WikiProject
- /WikiProject Concepts and its subpages – an early idea for a WikiProject
Graphics tutorials[edit]
- /How to draw a diagram with Microsoft Word
- /How to draw a diagram with OpenOffice.org Draw
- /How to draw a diagram with OpenOffice.org Writer
Policy discussions[edit]
- /RefactoringPolicy – an early discussion on how and where discussion of articles should be conducted
- /Rules to consider – the earliest discussions of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, including the first edits to that page
- /Summary of the debate about the neutral point of view – mostly preserved for its page history
- /To delete or not to delete – debate on deletion (May-July 2001)
Projects and processes[edit]
- /Blocked IPs – a list of blocked IPs during the UseModWiki era, mostly preserved for its page history
- /List of administrators by edit count from 2006
- /Politics/Wanted – a list of requested politics articles from 2001 and 2002
- /ReviewRequests - a 2001 page to draw attention to pages needing review
- Old sandbox-related history:
- /Earliest sandbox history and its talk page
- /Sandbox and its talk page
- /Sandpit
- /Self-linking pages – an old maintenance project
- /Substub - a definition of our very shortest pages and accompanying /Template:Substub (2004-6)
- /Votes for deletion/Lists – a proposal to delete a lot of list pages en masse that didn't reach critical mass
- /Wikipedia arranged by topic – a proposed category scheme
- /WikiReader - an early version of what became the Books namespace
Process templates[edit]
- /Template:COTW – a template used to mark an article that was up for collaboration of the week
- /Template:Deletedpage - a template that was used to mark articles which had been deleted and protected against recreation
- /Template:Noncompliant – a template that was used to tag articles that violated multiple policies
- /Template:Totally-disputed – a template that was used to tag articles whose neutrality and accuracy were disputed
Features[edit]
- /Edit lock – description of a feature of Wikipedia when it ran UseModWiki
- /Common words, searching for which is not possible – old search related issues
- /Lag – various complaints and possible solutions to the lag problem on Wikipedia, from 2002–03. Currently, complaints about lag are more typically aired on meta, IRC, and Discord ;-)
- /Search engine commentary – comments on the search engine before February 2002
- /Unsuccessful searches (2002-07) – a log of unsuccessful searches in July 2002.
Social[edit]
- /Friends of Wikipedia – a list of sites that link to Wikipedia
- /New user log - self-introductions by users who arrived in 2004–2007
Collections[edit]
- /Imported pictures – an archive of images formerly used on Wikipedia by permission
- /September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/In Memoriam and its talk page – mostly preserved for their page histories
Site interface[edit]
- /International Wikipedia/TextToTranslate – the first translation project for the Wikipedia interface
- /Main Page/CSS – page history of an old design for the Main Page, along with its talk page
- /MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage – an old MediaWiki page
- /Petition for the return of the Old Wikipedia – a petition to change the standard skin back to the older style, before Monobook
- /Recent Changes – old text which used to be at the top of Recent Changes
See also[edit]
- Wikipedia:Notability/Historical - archive of proposal documents and discussions which led to the establishment of our notability policy
- Category:Wikipedia obsolete log pages for logs of actions on pages prior to December 23, 2004
- Historical pages on Meta