I'm a bit fascinated by some of the stuff in the earlier part of the history logs. Some of things that I think are quirky/interesting, many of them pulled out of various SQL queries...
Pages
edit- Wikipedia:WikiProject proposal (Nov 01)
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Examples Debate (Dec 01)
- Wikipedia:Are You a Wikipediholic Test (Dec 01)
- Wikipedia:Category schemes (Jan 02)
- Wikipedia:Phase II feature requests/Wiki shortcuts (May 02)
- Wikipedia:Phase II feature requests/Other feature requests (Jul 02)
- Wikipedia:Traffic/2002_traffic_data (Aug 02 - Dec 02)
- Wikipedia:Building Wikipedia membership (Dec 02)
- Wikipedia:Deletion_log_archive/October_2002 (Oct 02)
- Wikipedia:Archive/Lag (Oct 02 - Jan 03)
- Village pump archives (Mar 03 a, Mar 03 b, Mar 03 c, Mar 03d, Apr 03 a, Apr 03 b, ...)
Users
edit- Generally anyone on this list (though it might be preferable to list users who are still active, not necessarily just the ones who are admin)
- Jimbo Wales (Mar 01)
- Ed Poor (Nov 01)
- Brion (Jan 02)
- Larry Sanger (Jan 02)
- Tim Starling (Oct 02)
Wikitext Format
edit- Wikitext formatting syntax has undergone changes throughout Wikipedia's life. These are some of the changes