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There's a lot of interesting forgotten stuff out there. These are my finds, some of which I'll eventually be putting into the Wikipedia:Historical archive.

Project pages

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Some of the very oldest pages still exist in hidden form. They were what we'd now think of as policy or guidance pages, and were created before there were namespaces in what's now called article space. Later on editors cut-and-paste moved pages from their old CamelCase titles to new ones and converted the old titles into redirects. While articles usually had a straightforward transition in this way, the project page titles sometimes got re-redirected several times as project policies and guidelines evolved and lost any direct relation to their original content.

If you're looking at one now, it's almost certainly at least partially thanks to the tireless work of Graham87, who's spent years painstakingly reassembling early page histories from fragments scattered across a variety of inconsistent archive sources. Kudos.

Pages containing or linking to obscure revisions

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Glitches

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Discussions

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Tasks and reports

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Bugs and features

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Buried failures

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Ideas which didn't make it and got turned into redirects.

Miscellany

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See also

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