Wikipedia:Historical archive

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This page is a co-ordination point for pages that were previously active, but have become obsolete and archived. Regular articles are not archived here or elsewhere because their previous versions may be viewed in their page histories. All pages still contain their original revisions, with some dating back to Wikipedia's early days.

A brief history

This page was created in March 2004 under the title "Wikipedia:Archive" and was moved to its current name in January 2008 to avoid conflicts with the shortcut WP:ARCHIVEWP:ARCHIVE, as WP shortcuts had been incorporated into the Wikipedia namespace in the previous month.

All historical pages

Encyclopedia content

Brilliant prose

BrilliantProse was a system started by Larry Sanger in January 2001 to recognize Wikipedia's best content, an ad hoc collection of articles added to the page by various editors. It later evolved into Wikipedia:Featured articles.

Imported pictures

In 2004–05 these lists were used to keep track of images imported to the project from other websites. Almost all were later deleted for not matching Wikipedia's image license requirements.

Other image collections

WikiProjects

Discussions which led to the creation of WikiProjects as a way of collaborating on articles. The first WikiProject set up was WikiProject Sports, on 25 September 2001.

Policy proposals and discussions

  • Approval mechanism – a proposal from September 2001 for a system of quality assurance and marking for Wikipedia articles, which was discussed for the next four years
  • Do not use subpages – a policy page advising against using subpages and outlining discussions for and against subpages, which now resides at a subpage
  • Naming conventions (slogans) – a short-lived de facto convention on how to deal with the titles of articles about slogans, which existed from June 2003 to November 2005
  • Naming policy poll – Poll which took place in May 2004, on how policy should address place names that differ between their official form and common form among speakers of English
  • Notability – most if not all of the Wikipedia-wide guideline/policy proposals, and development-influential essays, relating to notability in some way or another, with their active development lifespans, and notes
  • PolicyPolicy – an early discussion on policy enforcement
  • 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)
  • What's in, what's out – venue for discussing what Wikipedia should or shouldn't include (April 2004 – December 2005)

System logs

Pages that were used to record various system actions before the logs became special pages (2002–2004).

Projects and processes

Templates

Processes

Advisory

  • /Template:Not a forum - a talk page header template that was used to remind editors that talk pages are only for discussing improvements to articles

Features

Social

Site interface

Miscellany

Templates for this archive

Use {{whac}} and {{whai}} to tag collections and items within this archive respectively.

See also

allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Historical_archive