Editing History of Wikipedia (section)

==External links==
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===Wikipedia records and archives===

:''Wikipedia's project files contain a large quantity of reference and archive material. Useful internal resources on Wikipedia history include:''

'''Historical summaries'''
* [[:Category:Wikipedia years]] – historical events by year
* [[:meta:History of Wikipedia|History of Wikipedia]] – from the [[Wikipedia:Meta]]
* [[meta:Wikimedia News]] – news and milestones index from all Wikipedias
* [[Wikipedia:BrilliantProse]] – predecessor of [[Wikipedia:Featured articles]] and [[Wikipedia:Good articles]]
* [[Wikipedia:Historic debates]]
* [[Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots]]
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia records]]
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles]]

'''Milestones, size and statistics'''
* [https://stats.wikimedia.org/ Stats.wikimedia.org] – the Wikimedia Foundation's main interface for all project statistics, including the various and combined Wikipedia's.
* [[meta:Wikipedia milestones|Wikipedia milestones]]
* [[Wikipedia:Milestones]] <small>(inactive<!--/outdated-->)</small>
* [[Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia]]
* [[Wikipedia:Statistics]]

'''Discussion and debate archives'''
* [[Wikipedia:Announcement archive]]
* [[Wikipedia:Mailing lists]]

{{anchor|Other}}'''Other'''
* [[mw:MediaWiki history|MediaWiki history]]
* [https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org Nostalgia Wikipedia] – a snapshot of Wikipedia from 20 December 2001, running a later version of MediaWiki for security reasons but using a skin that looks like the software of the time
* [[Wikipedia:CamelCase and Wikipedia]]
* [[Wikipedia:Magnus Manske Day]] – MediaWiki software goes live into production
* [[Wikipedia:Volunteer Fire Department]] – handling of major editorial influx. Disbanded when no longer needed (2004)
* [https://archive.org/details/zimarchive ZIM File Archive], at [[Internet Archive]], contains full Wikipedia snapshots (as well as articles selections) in multiple languages, from different years. Files can be open with [[Kiwix]] software.
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===Third party===
* [http://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf "Fatally Flawed: Refuting the recent study on encyclopedic accuracy by the journal ''Nature''"]. ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''. March 2006.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20010303221706/http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/HomePage Early Wikipedia snapshot] via Internet Archive. 28 February 2001.
* Giles, Jim, [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html "Internet encyclopaedias go head to head"]. [[Nature (journal)|''Nature'']] comparison between Wikipedia and ''Britannica''. 14 December 2005 {{subscription required}}
* [[Larry Sanger]]. [http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213&from=rss "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir"] and [http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/19/1746205&tid=95 "Part II"]. [[Slashdot]]. 18 April 2005 to 19 April 2005.
* [http://www.nature.com/nature/britannica/index.html ''Nature's'' responses to ''Encyclopædia Britannica'']. ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''. 23 March 2006. {{subscription required}}
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/technology/fact-driven-collegial-this-site-wants-you.html ''New York Times'' on Wikipedia]. September 2001.
* [https://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/encyclopedia.html The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource] – Free Software Foundation endorsement of Nupedia (later updated to include Wikipedia). 1999.

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