Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 1 (section)

== Archives ==

There was a main page a week or so ago that had links I wanted to see. I lost it and forgot what exactly the links are. I'm addicted to wikipedia and now I'm obsessing about finding a cache or archive of previous main pages. I was wondering if there is such a thing.
Thank you.
:Well, there isn't an archive per se.  You've got a couple options.  First, you can click the "page history" link on the Main Page, and go back to a version from a week ago.  That'll give you a list of each version of the page, with times and dates.  The down side to that there's a new version every time anyone tweaks anything on the page, so you'll probably have to scroll through a good number of edits to go back a whole week.
:There are some other options.  You can look at [[Wikipedia:Goings-on]] and its archives, which list the "featured article" for each day.  You could also look at the archive for [[Mediawiki:dyk]], which has a lot of neat stuff.  If you remember the actual articles you're looking for, just type them into the search box.  Wikipedia's internal search is disabled, but it'll let you access a premade google search. [[User:Isomorphic|Isomorphic]] 04:29, 2 May 2004 (UTC)

:Just thought I'd point out that previous versions of the main page probably ''aren't'' all in its history, as the majority of changes now take place on "transcluded" pages. So the "featured articles", "in the news", etc, are now actually their own pages, magically merged into the main page whenever you view it. You might want to look at [[Wikipedia:Editing the main page]] for details. - [[User:IMSoP|IMSoP]] 18:24, 2 May 2004 (UTC)

*The ''Did you know'' section is archived at [[Wikipedia:Recent additions]]. 
*Anniversaries are archived at [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May]] (or whichever month you want)
*The featured articles are archived at [[Template:Feature/Archive]]
*The news items are also shown on [[Current events]] which are archived at the month they occurred in, such as [[April 2004]]. [[User:Angela|Angela]][[user talk:Angela|.]] 20:54, May 2, 2004 (UTC)