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.
[edit] Archived pages
- /Refreshing brilliant prose - A review of all brilliant prose articles was held in late 2003.
- /Votes for deletion/Lists - A proposal to delete a lot of list pages en masse that didn't reach critical mass.
- /Petition for the return of the Old Wikipedia - a petition to change the standard skin back to the older style, before Monobook.
- /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 and IRC. ;-)
- /Rules to consider - the earliest discussions of Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. There is also a little bit of old history archived at the CamelCase version of the page.
- /Wikipedia chat, general chat - the predecessor to the village pump
- /Common words, searching for which is not possible, Old search related issues
- /Sandbox and Wikipedia talk:Historical archive/Sandbox, some old sandbox-related history.
- /Wikipedia arranged by topic, A proposed category scheme
- /To delete or not to delete, debates on deletion
- /Search engine commentary, comments on the search engine before February 2002
- /WikiProject Concepts and its subpages, an early idea for a WikiProject
- /Unsuccessful searches (2002-07), a log of unsuccessful searches in July 2002.
- /Making fun of Britannica - some old page history
- /Blocked IPs - a list of blocked IPs during the UseModWiki era, mostly preserved for its page history
