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Wikipedia's Main Page as it appeared on 20 December 2001. Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2]
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Web browsing history refers to the list of web pages a user...
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On a history page: 1. All past changes to the page in question are listed in reverse-chronological order. 2. To view a specific revision, click a date. 3. To compare an old revision with the current revision, go to the old revision, click cur. 4. To compare a revision with its predecessor, click prev. 5. To compare two specific revisions, click the...
The history page contains a link "Find addition/removal". This links to Wikiblame, a tool for searching the entire history of a given page. Another useful tool is the Special:Export page, which is used to produce an XML file with the wikitext of the current and (optionally) all old revisions of one or more specified pages, with date, time, username...
A link to an Atom web feed for the history of a page is available from the lefthand Toolbox. This gives the diffsof the last 10 edits, each with a link to the ordinary, full diff page. Depending on the browser there may be possibilities such as sorting by author. An RSS version of the feed can be obtained by assigning to feed (one of the parameters...
When a page is moved (renamed), the entire edit history of the article, before and after the move, is shown. The old title becomes a redirectand loses its edit history. To view a history of only moves and no other edits, go to Special:Log/moveand input the name of the article in the "target" field. If instead of a move, the entire content was cut, ...
An "image" (in the broad sense of an uploaded file) can be edited, or, more generally, be replaced by a different image, by uploading a new image file with the same name. Again, all revisions are kept. The image history listing forms part of the image description page, which appears when clicking on the image. The image history consists of this and...
It is sometimes useful to link to a specific revision of an article—this is called a "permanent link". For example, one might have done a review of a Wikipedia article and want to indicate which particular revision was reviewed. A permanent link to the current revision of an article is normally available from the sidebar, under Tools ⇒ Permanent li...
Those wishing to make use of historical revisions of articles should be aware that some of the history may be problematic. As noted at the end of each history revision, in the text at MediaWiki:history copyright, the page histories may contain material that is incompatible with our license. Although all contributions are supposed to be compatible w...
Many revisions from early in Wikipedia's history, almost always from 2001, are missing. Nostalgia Wikipediashows the English Wikipedia as it existed on December 20, 2001; its page histories are likewise incomplete, but do sometimes contain revisions absent here (usually edits of little to no consequence). 1. Template:Oldid2, link to an old revision...
Apr 19, 2024 · Wikipedia, free Internet-based encyclopedia, started in 2001, that operates under an open-source management style. It is overseen by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation and is one of the most-visited sites on the Internet. It uses a collaborative software known as wiki for editing articles.
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Jan 14, 2021 · Jan 14, 2021. -- 15. t’s hard to imagine the internet without Wikipedia. Just like the air we breathe, the definitive digital encyclopedia is the default resource for everything and everyone —...
Jan 15, 2015 · Wikipedia had launched on Jan. 15, 2001 — that’s 14 years ago Thursday — and contained a mere 150,000 entries when TIME explained that “To contribute to wikipedia.org, an online encyclopedia, all...
Jan 15, 2016 · W ikipedia went live on Jan. 15, 2001, but the now-omnipresent online reference couldn’t have existed without work that began years earlier, around the the dawn of the World Wide Web. The...
