annie rauwerda
this is the very first version of the "Europe" Wikipedia article from 23 years ago, back when you could just write "some more" when you got sick of typing
https://reagle.org/joseph/2010/wp/redux/EuropE/980109295.html
EuropE

Jan 24, 2024 at 4:11amWeb
Show threadannie rauwerdaJan 24, 2024
i screenshotted, added alt text, AND posted this before I finally noticed that the original writer added a letter to "Contintent"
Show threadLincoln LincolnJan 24, 2024
@annierau - Maybe the author rushed the entry because s/he was incontintent?
Show threadMark EichinJan 25, 2024
@annierau
Med* likewise...
Show threadFelix BernoullyJan 27, 2024
@annierau Well, sometimes it *is* the contintent that counts.
Show threadPax Ahimsa GethenJan 24, 2024

@annierau

Heh, must have been a Swedish editor. Doesn't even bother to include Norway before calling it a day. Reminds me a bit of the famous New Yorker cover:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue

View of the World from 9th Avenue - Wikipedia

Show threadannie rauwerdaJan 24, 2024
@funcrunch I LOVE Saul Steinberg!
Show threadBlumeJan 24, 2024
@annierau What’s up with ending the names in capital letters?
Show threadGarrett WollmanJan 24, 2024
@BiNotBoth That was how olde wiki software recognized things that were supposed to be links, before [[ ]].
Show threadInfrogmationMar 9, 2024

@wollman @BiNotBoth
Called "CamelCase". Still useful for some things... like hashtags on Mastodon.

#CamelCase

Show threadbrennenJan 24, 2024
@annierau i didn't think i would, but i kinda miss WikiWords sometimes
Show threadChris AdamsJan 24, 2024
@annierau this genuinely made my day - thank you for sharing it! And as someone working with open data and open knowledge seeing where little bits of wikipedia started out like this is also makes it easier to put stuff into the world - everyone has to start somewhere, right? 😅
Show threadLesley LaiJan 24, 2024
@annierau What's going on with those PascalCase and UpperCaseLetterAtEnD? 😂
Show threadAlex RudnickJan 24, 2024
@lesley @annierau WikiWords!! Lots of wiki software did (and some still does) have things in CamelCase act as links and names of pages. I think it's really charming personally. https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiWord
Show threadGöran RoseenJan 24, 2024
@lesley @annierau If I remember correctly, words with more than one uppercase letter were automatically rendered as links.
Show threadPax Ahimsa GethenJan 24, 2024

@lesley @annierau

I think they might be artifacts of the import process: https://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/social/wikipedia-10k-redux.html

Wikipedia 10K redux

Sadly, for those of us interested in Wikipedia's history, much material has been lost. For example, I found that it was common for people involved …

Show threadannie rauwerdaJan 24, 2024
@funcrunch @lesley no, that was how we did links for our first 2 weeks of Wikipedia (other wikis had done it like that for years)! Until early Wikimedian Clifford Adams wrote software so make links look like [[this]]
Show threadHenriJan 24, 2024
@annierau EstoniA can into NordicS
Show threadMistyJan 24, 2024
@annierau I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but there's definitely also some questionable stuff in those early articles. https://reagle.org/joseph/2010/wp/redux/AfricanAmericanPeople/980814570.html
AfricanAmericanPeople

Show threadpavoJan 24, 2024
@annierau is there a reason all the place names have capitalisation on the last letter?