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.
All page histories still contain their original revisions, with some dating back to Wikipedia's early days.
/Complete list of encyclopedia topics - a list of over 100,000 topics generated by Larry Sanger in October 2001, from a number of sources including Wikipedia, as a stimulus for future article subjects
/Explore, created on 17 January 2001 as HowCanIExploreWikiPedia, a page suggesting ways of getting around
/Politics/Wanted – a list of requested politics articles from 2001–2
/ReviewRequests - a 2001 page to draw attention to pages needing review
/BrilliantProse was a system started by Larry Sanger in January 2001 to recognize Wikipedia's best content, an ad hoc collection of articles added to the page by various editors. It later evolved into Wikipedia:Featured articles.
* Approval mechanism - a proposal from September 2001 for a system of quality assurance and marking for Wikipedia articles, which was discussed for the next four years
Notability - most if not all of the Wikipedia-wide guideline/policy proposals, and development-influential essays, relating to notability in some way or another, with their active development lifespans, and notes
PolicyPolicy – an early discussion on policy enforcement
RefactoringPolicy – an early discussion on how and where discussion of articles should be conducted
Offline reports - from 2004, analyzing aspects of articles, generated periodically from an offline copy of the database. A predecessor of Wikipedia:Maintenance
/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, IRC, and Discord ;-)
