Wikipedia:Milestones

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August 2002

August 10, 2002

Over a year ago, a company made a copy of Wikipedia at [http://the-fact-factory.com http://the-fact-factory.com]. The site is loaded with advertisements and stagnant.
We are drawing attention to this site now as it has been pointed out that user pages were also copied to the site. You might want to remove or modify your user page at the site.

August 10, 2002

David A. Wheeler has just released html2wikipedia, a tool that translates HTML into Wikipedia's Wiki format. This may help in extracting existing material: translate it into HTML (if it isn't already), use html2wikipedia, and then massage the results. Obviously, please make sure that you don't just do a data dump - you still need to ensure that the copyright is compatible, that the text has a neutral point of view, and so on.

August 4, 2002

The Mycroft Project has a new search plugin available for Mozilla-based browsers, including Netscape 6, for searching the English Wikipedia. Visit http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html and search for "Wikipedia".

July 2002

July 21, 2002

Wikipedia is already running the new software on the new server (IP: 130.94.122.197).

July 13, 2002

Wikipedia is going to change software and hardware pretty soon, probably within a week. Please test the new system at http://beta.wikipedia.com and submit bug reports and feature requests. Edits you make on that site won't affect the real Wikipedia database. Discussion of the new system takes place on the mailing lists.

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