Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "First Wikipedia edit" in English language version.
[p. 90:] Figure 3.2 The earliest still-extant Wikipedia editing entry. [Shows image of 'Project page / Wikipedia:UuU'.]
Wikipedia began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
That edit… was originally penned… shortly after the site first rolled out to the public in mid-January, 2001.
I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August 2001! / This is exciting, because there is lots of article history in here which was assumed to be lost forever.
