Wikimedia News/2004
December 2004
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[edit]- The Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles. The 15,000th article was UIAA by Peter J. Acklam or Galen by an anonymous user
- The Japanese Wikiquote has reached 100 articles. It took 34 days from the 50th article. The milestone article is 阿倍仲麻呂, a 8th Century Japanese politician and poet.
- The Polish Wikipedia has reached 50k articles. Congratulations! 50,000th article was Diablo_2 by an unknown user.
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[edit]- The Russian Wikipedia has reached 10 000 articles!
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[edit]- Chinese wikiquote has reached 100 articles.
25
[edit]- The Frisian Wikipedia was once again found to be victim of a gamma test installation.
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[edit]- Hard work started at the Croatian Wiktionary. So far it has reached more than 100 pages.
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[edit]- Galician wiktionary has reached 10,000 articles due to work by Rabalde. We have only two users so this is an important date for us.
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[edit]- Japanese Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles. The milestone article is about ja:ガヤトリ・スピヴァク(Gayatri Spivak), an India born critic. Now Japanese Wikipedia has around 200 new articles per day, over 15,000 registered users. Over 100 users are very active but 40%-50% of edits are done by anonymous users. There are 26 administrators and some users are requesting now for adminships after a long discussion and a vote for improvement of adminship request rules in this fall.
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[edit]- The Hindi Wikipedia has reached 500 articles. The 500th article is about Lok Janashakti Party by User:विजय टाकुर.
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[edit]- The Latvian Wikipedia has reached 500 articles. The 500th article is about Galaktika, by PeterisP.
- All Wiktionaries became unaccessible because its domain name was expired. The problem was solved on December 17 and Wiktionary regained its connectivity.
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[edit]- The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles! The 10,000th article is Opera poetică a lui Mihai Eminescu, about the works of the great Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu. The creator of this article was Moby Dick. Ro.wiki reached 10,000 articles exactly one month after reaching 9,000 articles! A big thank you to all the contributors on the Romanian Wikipedia - without you we couldn't have done it!
- With the Romanian milestone, 20 Wikipedias now contain over 10,000 articles. Wikistats has up-to-date size comparisons.
- A completely rewritten spam filter has been incorporated into MediaWiki, which blocks URLs containing certain domains and words. The new filter comes with a greatly expanded blacklist, derived from the publically available Wikiblacklist. Because of the wide range of entries in the list, there have been a few false positives reported (including the blocking of all links to .com.cn). Any meta sysop can edit the spam blacklist to remove the links that are triggering the filter, with the changes taking effect immediately, so if you are an administrator be prepared for such requests. New links can also be added to the list if a new spammer should start making the rounds.
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[edit]- German wikibooks reached 1000 chapters (in 124 books).
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[edit]- The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 5000 articles. The 5000th article is about L'Étranger (The Stranger), a book by the French writer Albert Camus.
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[edit]- The English Wikinews project has left the demo stage and now resides at http://en.wikinews.org - more languages will follow soon.
- The Sicilian wikipedia reached 100 articles. The 100th article was written by Peppi Melfi about Missina.
- The German Wikinews project started at http://de.wikinews.org.
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[edit]- The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has 150 registered users. Tu Bông is user number 150.
November 2004
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[edit]- The Greek Wikipedia reached 2,500 articles.
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[edit]- The Gujarati Wiktionary reached 100 articles.
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[edit]- In Rotterdam the first Wikipedia Symposium was held. It was a great success, with over 40 people present, among which were were Jimbo, Angela and Anthere, the rest coming from the Netherlands and Flanders, except for Waerth who was visiting the Netherlands from Bangkok. Talks were held on the following subjects: Python Wikipedia Bot, Wiktionary and Categorizing.
- see report.
- The ja:wikiquote reached 50 articles. The 50th article is 親鸞(Shinran), the Japanese Buddhist priest in the 13th century, consumed by Kzhr.
- The Portuguese Wiktionary had reached 500 articles. The 500th article was Brown, by E2m.
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[edit]- The English Wiktionary reached 50,000 articles.
- The South African Collaboration of the Week on the English Wikipedia is launched today. It intends to further develop the quality of Wikipedia articles about South Africa.
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[edit]- The English Wiktionary had its 50.000th article today. This is a big milestone, I want to congratulate the en:crowd with this result
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[edit]- The nl:wiktionary has its 1000th word in the Dutch language. There are now 7129 articles and 233 languages. The word wesp was by MARCEL.
- Italian Wikipedia reaches 30.000 articles in the evening! The 30.000th article was Star Trek VI- Rotta verso l'ignoto by Marcok.
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[edit]- The English Wikibooks reaches 5,000 modules. It is likely that the 5000th module was Wikibooks Pokédex:Omanyte by KelvSYC.
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[edit]- The English Language Wikipedia's 400,000th article was appended sometime in the morning (GMT). The probability is that it was Donald Bradley Somervell, Baron Somervell, by Timrollpickering.
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[edit]- The Polish Wikiquote reaches 500 articles. The 500th article was Wojciech Bartoszewski by MariuszR.
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[edit]- Korean Wikipedia reaches 5000 articles. The 5000th article is 백마산.
- Sicilian Wikipedia reaches 50 articles. The 50th article is Lamantinu - Week 3 of the Translation of the Week.
- Wikipedia.org is the 172nd most visited site on the Internet according to Alexa.com.
- Kannada Wikipedia reaches 100 articles.
- Italian wiktionary reaches 1000 articles. The 1000th article is antipasto and is an appetizer for more things to come :) .
- Spanish Wikipedia reaches 35000 articles.
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[edit]- Swedish Wikipedia reaches 50.000 articles! The 50 000th article is It's Everly Time.
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[edit]- Catalan wikipedia has reached 10.000 articles. The 10.000th article is Dècada del 1040 aC.
- Ukrainian wikipedia has reached 10.000 articles at 12:35 CET.
- The Swedish Wikipedia passes the english Wiktionary. The swedish Wikipedia is now the world's seventh biggest wiki, by page count. (49496 on svwiki, 49425 on enwiktionary, 14:07, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)).
- The English Wikipedia has now reached 8.00 average edits per page, suggesting increasing quality even with increasing quantity.
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[edit]- Wikimedia Commons has reached 3000 articles. The 3000th article appears to be Plains Aborigines of Taiwan.
- The Hungarian Wiktionary reaches 3000 articles.
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[edit]- NL-Wikipedia reaches 40.000 articles at 15:18 CET. The 40.000th article is Runo.
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[edit]- The English Wikipedia now has over 1 million total pages (over a third are legitimate articles).
October 2004
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[edit]- The location of Wikimania 2005 was determined to be Frankfurt am Main. Its official name and date are still being discussed on vote page and participant page. If you plan to join Wikimania, please list yourself on Participants page.
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[edit]- Images on WikiCommons can now be linked to like local images. Also, WikiCommons recently included a large number of pictures of flowers and plants.
29
[edit]- The Greek Wikipedia has reached its 2000th article.
- The Southern Min Wikipedia has just started its 500th article, Tâi-oân Ko-sok-thih-lō·, or "Taiwan High Speed Rail". The dates have yet to be created.
- The Hindi Wiktionary has more than 100 articles.
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[edit]- Wikipedia.org's daily Alexa rank hits 218 - a new record.[1] See Wikipedia.org is more popular than....
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[edit]- The board members of the French chapter were elected.
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[edit]- The French chapter will have its inaugural meeting in Paris and via the Wiki and IRC.
- 10 Wikipedians gathered in Osaka, Japan. It was the first meetup of Japanese Wikipedians announced in advance, though some wikipedians saw each other in occasion. They enjoyed the meetup and discussed on current issues on Japanese Wikipedia (how to treat vandals and/or trolls, which rules should be improved, what experience they have on Wikipedias, what kinds of articles they have written and expect to write and so on). Another meetup in Tokyo is planned now. Further information on meetups is available.
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[edit]- The Chinese wikipedia has reached 15 000 articles.
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[edit]- The Spanish Translation of the Week has been launched on en:wikipedia, it is hoped that this effort will help spark more collaborative translation efforts.
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[edit]- The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 200 entries.
14
[edit]- The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 10 000 articles (Press release in Finnish)
- The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 1000 articles.
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[edit]- The Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 10 000 articles (Press release in Norwegian)
- The Chinese Wikiquote has reached 50 articles.
10
[edit]- The Sanskrit Wikipedia now has 1,000 articles.
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[edit]- The German Wikipedia reaches 150,000 articles.
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[edit]- Vala, a user of the Italian Wikipedia, graduated in sociology with a thesis on Wikipedia. She graduated "summa cum laude". This is the first time in Italy that a thesis on this subject has been discussed.
- ウィクショナリー, the Japanese Wiktionary, has passed 1,000 words. The milestone word was アイスランド (Japanese for Iceland) by FoX. The last milestone passing was on September 21. This growth depends on some active anon users.
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[edit]- There has been a huge spike in traffic over the last two days leading to slower than normal load times. Our previous Alexa ranking record was 349 on September 22nd; yesterday we skyrocketed to 290 and climbed again today to 260.
- WikiCommons reached the milestone of 1000 uploaded files (mostly images, but also over 100 sound fragments and 1 movie). The 1000th file was an image, uploaded by Robbot (the robot of Andre Engels), showing a mission post in California around 1792.
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[edit]- We are happy to announce that the Bulgarian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles. The 10,000th article is concerning the trial against the Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor in Libya by Stanislav. We have 483 registered wikipedians and 8 administrators. The Bulgarian Wikipedia is the first Cyrillic alphabet Wikipedia to have more than 10,000 articles.
- We have exceeded our goal of raising 50,000 dollars in two weeks. Thanks to all who donated!
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[edit]- The Polish Wikipedia now has 40,000 articles.
September 2004
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[edit]- The Japanese Wikipedia has reached 75,000 articles. The milestone was celebrated with the article 貞応, an era in medieval Japan (1222-1224), posted by Zippin. Of around 12,000 registered users, about 100 are very active. It took 22 days since the 70,000th article in early September.
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[edit]- WikiWoordenboek, the Dutch Wiktionary, has achieved its 5.000 article. The word Italie (French for Italy) was the word that completed this lot. One of the major accomplishments was that we were able to copy content to the Japanese, Vietnamese, French, Catalan, Asturian, Italian and English Wiktionaries.
A special thank you is for Timwi, his website with the names of languages was an important source of content that did previously not exist in the Wiktionaries.
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[edit]- After being inaccessible to Mainland China users for several days, Wikipedia seems to be generally accessible again, even though an appeal prepared by Chinese Wikipedians has not yet been sent out. (The block in June ended when an appeal was sent by Chinese Wikipedians to government agencies.)
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[edit]- Wikipedia now has over 250 million words, and its total size is over 2 gigabytes.
- Polish Wikipedia is three years old today.
- The Alemannic Wiktionary was created as separate namespace on Alemannic Wikipedia.
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[edit]- It cannot be exactly determined which article was the one millionth, but estimates are that it was created on September 14 around 21:55. Because of this, the official millionth article is the first article after this time, being דגל קזחסטן, the Hebrew article about the flag of Kazakhstan.
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[edit]- There are unconfirmed reports that all Wikimedia sites have once again been blocked in China. Some users report that they cannot access Wikimedia sites at all; others say that they still can. Wikipedia has been blocked in China before, from June 4 to June 21; the block ended after several members of the Chinese Wikipedia appealed to various agencies administering the block. (Internet blocks like these are not administered centrally or systematically.) Another appeal has been drafted following this most recent block.
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[edit]- Wikipedia.org's daily Alexa rank hits 349 - a new record.[2] See Wikipedia.org is more popular than....
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[edit]- The Japanese Wiktionary has passed 500 words. 500th was Japonka, a polish word meaning a Japanese woman, by anon user.
20
[edit]- Wikipedia reaches a total of one million articles across all languages. Announced via an international press release.
- The Wikimedia Foundation begins a two week Fundraising drive with the aim of raising $50,000.
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[edit]- The Portuguese Wikipedia reached 20.000 articles.
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[edit]- The English Wikipedia now has 350,000 articles!
- The Letzebuergsch Wikipedia has reached 1k articles!
14
[edit]- The Romanian Wikipedia reached 8,000 articles, making it the 18th largest Wikipedia. This article growth marks the second in a series of initiatives to revitalise the Romanian Wikipedia (the first was the redesigning of the Main Page.
- The Serbian Wikipedia reached 5.000 articles.
- The Wikispecies is created.
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[edit]- The Swedish Wikipedia reached 40.000 articles.
- The Kurdish Wikipedia has reached 1.000 articles. #1000 was Musa Anter by User:Piling.
- The German wiktionary has reached its 500 words.
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[edit]- The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 10,000 Articles. Yes! Yes! Yes! WE DID IT !!!
Happy New Year! Shana Tova!שנה טובה - שנת שלום בעולם כולו Year of peace in our globe. In addition, over the past month, as the Hebrew wikipedia was racing towards the 10,000 article milestone, all of the sister projects were set up in Hebrew domains (Hebrew Wiktionary, WikiBooks, WikiQuote, and WikiSource; active users have begun adding content to all of them. - The German Wikipedia has reached its first 200 articles voted to be excellent - and this with a rather big bang. Some way to go to the goal of 10,000, but still...
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[edit]- Japanese Wikipedia was honored with the Special Prize of Web Creation Award by Japan Advertising Bureau. Two Wikipedians attended the ceremony in Tokyo and received the prize. The award praises persons who contribute to the WWW among Japanophony.For details about the award: ja:Wikipedia:Webクリエーション・アウォード
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[edit]- Wikimedia Commons has been started up as a place to collect pictures for use in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
- The Portuguese Wikipedia reached 15.000 articles.
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[edit]- The Japanese Wikipedia reached 70,000 articles. The 70,000th articles is チャック・サッカー (Chuck Thacker) edited by an anonymous user. It took 50 days to reach the milestone from the 60,000th article. The growth average has been steady in those recent months. see also ja:Wikipedia:70000記事達成
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[edit]- A new Main Page layout is launched for the Romanian Wikipedia, based on the designs of several other Wikipedias, including English and Bulgarian, and some new ideas too. This is just the first in a series of qualitative improvements that will occur throughout the Romanian and Aromanian Wikipedias this year.
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[edit]- The Dutch Wikipedia reached 35.000 articles!
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[edit]- Japanese Wikipedia has been nominated to the 2nd Web Creation Award (Japanese Wikipedia contributers only) organised by Japan Advertising Bureau. In the screening process, Aoineko and Suisui were interviewed by JAB judge members at Shibuya, Tokyo. The consequence of award will be announced on September 9 at its celebration celemony.
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[edit]- The Asturian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 entries.
- The Swedish Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries with only four active users.
- The Japanese Wikipedia has been renewed the Main Page. The new Main Page designed by Electric goat won the competition in August.A new desined only-text version Main Page has been introduced.
- E70 is the 50th administrator on Swedish Wikipedia.
August 2004
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[edit]- The French Wikipedia has reached 50,000 Entries. Congratulations! It's the 4th Wikipedia passing 50k articles. 50,000th article was "Nèfle" by Anthere! Mail of announcement and explanation of the choice of article.
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[edit]- The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.
- Jimbo's presence in Amsterdam for a conference was celebrated with a Wikimeet in Utrecht, which including Jimbo had 12 participants, making it the largest Dutch Wikimeet to date by far.
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[edit]- The Chinese wiktionary has reached its 100 words.
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[edit]- Four new servers being installed. Some downtime possible. Updates at OpenFacts
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[edit]- The Asturian Wikipedia reached 500 articles.
- The Thai Wikipedia reached 500 articles.
15
[edit]- The Welsh Wikipedia expanded over 20% overnight to over 2500 articles, when a bot was employed to fill in missing years between 1000 and 1700. It's only four months since we reached article 1000.
- The Swedish Wiktionary now has 500 articles. Watch out en:, we're coming!
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[edit]- Wikipedia has reached 900.000 articles and is now heading for a million. Expected date mid September.
- The English Wikipedia has reached the 325,000 article milestone.
- The English Wikipedia has passed the 100M word mark within the last week.
13
[edit]- The Dutch wiktionary has reached its 2.500th word. The content is mainly names for languages. The content is from Timwi's website. He wants to discontinue it and the content is now in a form that it can be easily copied to another wiktionary.
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[edit]- Hurricane Charley is expected to make landfall near Tampa, Florida on August 13. Wikimedia's hosting center is prepared for the storm, but downtime is possible. For offsite updates on Wikipedia's status, see the Wikipedia Status page at OpenFacts.
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[edit]- The Asturian Wikipedia reached 100 articles.
- The Hungarian Wiktionary contains more than 1000 words, mostly Spanish and Japanese.
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[edit]- The Danish Wikipedia reached 20,000 articles. The 20,000th article was Sommerblomst by Hansjorn an article about summer flowers.
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[edit]- The Polish Wikipedia has reached 35,000 articles.
- Fixed reference (which carries generated static copies from downloads) has gone bi-lingual, with the first French WikiPedia 27/7/04 added to copies of en 24/4/04 and 24/7/04 and Simple 1/5/04 and 24/7/04
- (July 31/August 1) The Serbian Wikipedia has new design.
- (July 21/August 1) The Serbian Wikipedia has 1000 articles. We suppose that the milestone article was the page about Saturn in Serbian, but it is also possible that it was the page about Neptune in Serbian. We are sure that the milestone Wikipedian is Avala.
July 2004
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[edit]- The German Wikipedia is converted to UTF-8.
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[edit]- The Sundanese Wikipedia exceeds 200 articles!
- The Javanese Wikipedia exceeds 100 articles!
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[edit]- The first ever Chinese Wikipedia get together was in Beijing, China, at the campus of [[Peking University|Peking University]] (aka Beijing University). Picture from the event (bottom of page)
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[edit]- Wikibooks now has separate subdomains for the different languages. The German Wikibooks at http://de.wikibooks.org already exists and is in the transfer process. The French and Japanese Wikibooks are well on their way, too.
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[edit]- The luxembourgish Wikipedia says hello to the world!
- Wikipedia.org now listed on Alexa as a 'Reference' site ranking #12 and as #1 in 'Reference > Encyclopedias'.
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[edit]- Spanish Wikipedia is converted to UTF-8.
14
[edit]- The Khmer (Cambodian) Wikipedia gets its first article, on the topic of Sin Sisamouth by User:Squash. It has been started using Romanized letters until more native Khmer script writers can contribute. A village pump equivalent has been set up at Wikipedia:Kalein Teak by User:Fuzheado.
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[edit]- The Portuguese Wikipedia reached 10 000 articles. The 10 000th article is Rendufinho.
- The Dutch Wikipedia finished its first article writing contest between the contributors. A three-person jury selected the best article among a number of nominations. In total 7 people took part, and the jury chose IJzeren poort by Fransvannes as the winner, with honourable mention for Karel Appel by Ellywa and Emden by Falcongj. And of course the Dutch Wikipedia won by getting seven very high-quality articles. See report.
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[edit]- There are now over 800,000 articles total in the Wikipedias.
- The Hebrew Wikipedia has been growing for a year.
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[edit]- English Wikipedia exceeds 300,000 articles and 5,000,000 edits!
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[edit]- A meeting was held in Paris with Jimbo, Angela and about 40 Wikipedians from France, Belgium and Switzerland.
See some photos and interview (Jimbo, Anthere, Angela, Yann)
The first Wikimedia Board meeting was held at this occasion.
June 2004
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[edit]- Wikipedia's Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for Digital Communities was officially accepted by Danny in New York City at the first ever PAE award ceremony held there. It is a beautiful golden statue of Nike. Quoth Danny in his acceptance speech, "Wikipedia shows that everyone can be a learner, but also that everyone can be a teacher too... In five years I want more people around the world in more languages and of all ages to become teachers and learners."
Pictures and the story at Golden Nica Awards 2004.
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[edit]- NL Wikipedia exceeds 30,000 articles
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[edit]- Access to the Chinese Wikipedia has now been restored for users in Mainland China.
18
[edit]- Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles. The 5000th article was Сікорський Ігор Іванович (Igor Sikorsky, the designer of the first modern helicopter) by Gutsul. I would be interested to know whether Gutsul is a human or a bot. It is the second massive growth spurt by Ukrainian in three weeks that has brought it to the 5000-article milestone. Congratulations to them.
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[edit]- Access to Wikimedia sites has been restored for users in Mainland China, though the Chinese Wikipedia remains inaccessible for some users.
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[edit]- The French Wikipedia reached 40 000 articles. The 40 000th article is Pancréas.
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[edit]- The official announcement was made on Foundation-l regarding the foundation of the German Wikimedia Association, "Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens". For boardmembers and other details, see the post.
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[edit]- German Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles. We are having a party tonight at C-Base in Berlin, Germany to celebrate!
- The elections for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees have ended. Angela and Anthere have been chosen.
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[edit]- The English version of Wikipedia was rendered inaccessible in China, coinciding with a national campaign by the Government to remove content deemed unsuitable by Beijing from public access in China. News of the crackdown has been officially verified by Xinhua, [3]. See news reports in: English; Esperanto.
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[edit]- Wikimedia servers were down for about 36 hours due to a database crash [4] [5].
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[edit]- Seven months after the 100th article, the Frisian Wikipedia with the article Fryske flagge (Frisian flag) has reached the milestone of the 1000th article.
- English Wiktionary reaches 40,000 entries. Entry 40,000 was Luka.
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[edit]- Jimbo met a group of Wikipedians in person for the first time ever in London today. He spoke for an hour and a half about current Wikimedia issues, the Wiki
holicspedians socialised and we had a Wikipedia quiz. Then we went to the pub. Report and pictures by Arno Lagrange - Holopedia, born in July 2003, is undergoing reincarnation as the Minnan Wikipedia. As a standardizing Sinitic language, Minnan is here written in the traditional Peh-oe-ji Latin script, as practiced in Taiwan. Current priorities include bringing onboard the 180 off-site articles, localizing the interface to grow the community, and negotiating an appropriate subdomain name.
- All Wiktionaries have been upgraded to MediaWiki 1.3.
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[edit]- Jimbo met Arno Lagrange in person for the first ever international meeting between two wikipedians.
- The Hungarian Wikipedia has passed the 1000 article milestone. Looking forward to further growth.
- In the mainland China a part of users are unable to visit the Chinese Wikipedia. Other languages' Wikipedia and other projects are still accessible. It is strongly suspected the Chinese government might have blocked the access to the Chinese Wikipedia.
Soon after the suspected block, user in China became unable to access the English version of Wikipedia, this block seems to have been lifted on June 17.
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[edit]- The Norwegian Wikipedia has adopted a new main page, based on the new German design.
May 2004
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[edit]- The Bulgarian Wikipedia has exploded. As of June 2, its article count stood at 5715 - a gain of almost four thousand on the 1896 articles registered on 22 May. The 5000th article, created on 31 May, was Сухозем, about a city in central Bulgaria. The "author" was Robo5, a Bot operated by Borislav. This bot, very similar to the (dormant) Rambot which Anglowikipedians know so well, has been responsible for the vast majority of the four thousand new articles.
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[edit]- The Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles. The 5000th article was IPod, about the iPod, the new digital music software packaged with Apple computers, by Profoss.
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[edit]- All Wikipedia sites have been upgraded to v1.3 of the MediaWiki software.
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[edit]- The Toki Pona Wikipedia reaches 100 articles. The 100th article was Jan Juta.
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[edit]- The Aromanian Wikipedia has been set-up, after a long period of waiting and anticipation. Although Aromanian is a small language, the Aromanian Wikipedia has big hopes for the future, hoping to become an important Wikipedia. The Aromanian Wikipedia has been started up by the folks at the Romanian Wikipedia, since Aromanian is very similar to Romanian.
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[edit]- The Japanese Wikipedia reached 50,000 articles at 17:12pm. The honour for the 50,000th article, 哪吒太子 ("The Crown Prince"), goes to an anonymous user with the IP of 219.5.168.60. It is 54 days since the 40k milestone was passed on April 1.?During this term, about 400 Wikipedians have contributed more than five times by month, new articles by day was 186 in average, average editing times by article was 8.4. 35% articles are over 0.5kb, 6% articles are over 2kb. Both are 1 point in growth from April.
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[edit]- Greek Wikipedia reaches 1,000 articles. The 1000th article is 15 Ιουνίου by Pumpie; a link page for June 15th.
- A new page tracking Wikimedia's bank account history now exists at Wikimedia bank account history for 2004. Wikimedia PayPal donations for 2004 has also been updated. Both pages are updated as of the end of quarter 1 2004.
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[edit]- The total Wikipedia project has passed 700,000 articles. Given that today's article count was 702,163, and that Wikipedia has grown at an average rate of 2238 new articles per day over the past week, it is likely that the 700,000 milestone was reached sometime yesterday (May 21). The previous milestone (600,000) was passed on April 3, so the 48-day interval is not quite a record (the 600,000 milestone took only 42 days), but it's close enough.
A number of interesting trends are apparent. The English Wikipedia share has dropped to just 38.55 percent of the total; it is still by far the largest, but many of the smaller Wikis are showing incredible vitality. The German, Japanese, and Italian Wikipedias have all doubled in size; the Chinese Wikipedia has done even better, percentagewise. Chinese and Italian have both passed the 10,000 mark; Japanese will hit 50,000 in the next 48 hours, and on present trends German will become only the second Wiki to reach 100,000 by the end of June, at the latest.
Among the smaller Wikis, Portuguese and Hebrew have shown strong growth over the past couple of months. As always, the Romanian wiki has shown consistent growth. A particular surprise is Ukrainian: after months of steady but unspectacular growth, it has suddenly put on a phenomenal growth spurt and added almost a thousand articles in a mere seven days; only English, German, and Japanese have done better. Time will tell whether this new surge is just a solar flare, or something lasting, as one certainly hopes.
Defying the general growth trend, the Interlingua Wikipedia continues to shrink - but that is for the better. Andre Engels and Fire have gone on a deleting spree to clean up the rubbish dumped by vandals. Shorn of its cancerous growths, it should soon be able to resume its former healthy growth. - Swedish Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles, becoming the 6th to do so.
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[edit]- System administrators intend to release MediaWiki version 1.3 today. This version of the software incorporates many new features introduced the 1.2 branch. See MediaWiki roadmap for details. Report new bugs and make any comments at comment page.
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[edit]- For the third time in 4 days The Chinese Wikipedia is hit by a large-scale vandalism attack, creating hundreds of pages with the same content. Actions are being considered to make this kind of vandalism harder or its cleanup easier.
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[edit]- Polish Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles, the 5th to do so.
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[edit]- Wikipedia.org's Alexa daily rank hits 426 - the best daily rank for Wikipedia.org yet.[6]
- Chinese Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles, the 12th to do so.
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[edit]- Wikipedia has been awarded with the Webby Award in the category Community. [7]
- The server was down for maintenance from 02:00 to 03:00 UTC. See hardware status and this mailing list post for details.
early May
[edit]- Wikipedia has been awarded a Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in its new Digital Communities category. That makes us one of seven sites/groups to receive ~10,000 Euros and be asked to give a public lecture in September in Linz, Austria at the Ars Electronica Cyberarts Festival. As one of the two winners in this new category, we will also be sending a representative to a separate ceremony (cohosted with SAP New York) in Manhattan in June.
Please help update the Linz, cyberarts, Ars Electronica, and related articles on your language's Wikipedia!
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[edit]- Preparations for the Elections for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation have started.
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[edit]- The Malay Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
- The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles. The 2,000th article in the Indonesian Wikipedia is Cinta about love)
- The Italian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
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[edit]- Hardware upgrades taking place from 18:30 (UTC) onwards on both these days. Expect some editing downtime. See Wikimedia hardware status for details.
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[edit]- (I don't know where to post this, so I'll put it here, and anyone can move it to a more appropriate location.
Mi ne scias kie meti cxi tiun mesagxon, do mi metas gxin cxi tie. Iu ajn povas movi gxin al pli tauxga loko).
Let us all express our sympathy to Arno Lagrange, one of our Stewards, whose father, one of the pillars of the Esperanto movement in France and also internationally, died the day before yesterday.
Ni esprimu niajn kondolencojn al Arno Lagrange, unu el niaj Steuxardoj, kies patro, gravegulo en la movado Esperanta, kaj en Francujo kaj internacie, mortis antaux du tagoj.
Let us all take a moment to think of Arno and his family at this sad time for them, and to express our sympathy.
Ni cxiuj uzu momenton por pensi pri la familio de Arno, kaj por esprimi kondolencojn. --Davidcannon 12:07, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
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[edit]- New Wiktionary are set up. The url is http://XX.wiktionary.org You have to change XX by the code of the language.
- Introduction of the new German Wikipedia main page.
April 2004
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[edit]- Wikipedia.org's daily Alexa rank hits 503 - a new record.[8] See Wikipedia.org is more popular than....
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[edit]- Wikipedia.org's daily Alexa rank hits 521 - a new record.[9] See Wikipedia.org is more popular than....
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[edit]- Wikipedia has been nominated for Webby Awards in two categories. Best Practices and Community. You can findthe definitions of these two categories.
The listings: [10], [11]
Webby Awards are a set of awards presented to the world's "best" websites. The awards have been given out since 1996.
Winners will be announced online May 12.
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[edit]- The English Wikipedia has reached 250,000 articles.
- The German Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
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[edit]- The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 6,000 articles.
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[edit]- The Welsh Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles at 00.01 BST. The 1000th article was Laura Ann Jones, about a member of the Welsh National Assembly.
- The Dutch Wikipedia reached 25,000 articles. The 25.000th was Slag bij Rossbach, about a battle in the Seven Years' War.
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[edit]- The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
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[edit]- Romanian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
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[edit]- As per the Foundation-L Proposal, a new mailing list, foundation-l, is created for the purpose of discussing issues related to the Wikimedia Foundation, such as the creation of new Wikimedia projects, or fundraising ideas. Please subscribe if you are interested in these issues.
- The mailing list wikilegal-l is proposed to be merged into foundation-l.
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[edit]- Japanese Wikipedia now has over 40,000 articles.
- Wikipedia.org nominated by www.google.com for deletion as a collection of unrelated items put together by non-professionnels and therefore clearly worthless.
- On the Dutch Wikipedia an article announces the introduction by Philips and Matsushita of a completely new disk, the Multi Purpose Disk, using Röntgen Radiation to get a storage capacity of 5 Terabyte. The page has been kept after April 1 ended.
March 2004
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[edit]- Cashubian Wikipedia has been started.
- Angry that the first site to be shown on Google for the search 'Jew' is an anti-Semitic site, someone has start an action to Googlebomb with the page en:Jew. The page is already up from nowhere to place 4 (now place 1/2 - April 19) for this search. See: [12]
- The swedish wikipedia has 25.000 articles.
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[edit]- French Wiktionary, and Polish Wiktionary have been developed creating the first two multilingual Wiktionaries.
- Geoffrin, the computer that was the database server from November to January, has (finally) been returned after repairs.
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[edit]- The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has 100 articles.
- The English Wikipedia has a group of members who have started a Wikipedian voluntary association to help members in the dispute resolution process there. The organization is called the Association of Members' Advocates. They are exercising their democratic rights and are conducting an online election for Coordinator; nominations, open to all (even non-members of the association), close at 07:15, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC).
- A new mailing list, Foundation-L, for Wikimedia issues is proposed. The proposal is at Foundation-L Proposal. Please vote by March 31, 20:00 UTC.
- The German Wikipedia now has over 70,000 articles.
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[edit]- Wikipedia.org's Alexa daily rank hits 541 - the best daily rank for Wikipedia.org yet.[13] See Wikipedia.org is more popular than...
- The Russian wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles
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[edit]- The Latin wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles
- Enciclopedia Libre has switched to Phase III. The new adress is http://enciclopedia.us.es/
- Wikipedia in French has switched to unicode.
- Please vote on Mailing list merge
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[edit]- Please vote on Edit summary prefill poll.
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[edit]- From 23:09-23:19 UTC there was a fast interlingual vandalism attack on the Wikipedias, changing the Main Page of over four dozen languages (I didn't count exactly, but the attack targeted more wikipedias than not) to an offensive (and badly written) text. The vandalism was done in a course of minutes, maybe suggesting either someone who knows his way around or a bot-supported attack. Reverting this kind of attack is not easy, as there are no tools to fight interlingual vandalism (well, merging the database, making a common recent changes, being able to ban wikipedia-wide and such things would help greatly, but are definitvely non trivial changes)
As I see right now, the attack even hit Meta, the Sep11-Wiki, Wikibooks and WikiQuote... (who'd ever think, the Meta-Wikipedia would become a target for vandalism?)
I'm not sure if all Wikipedias are cleansed from the attack, I went through all the (at least somewhat) active ones, I hope. Please help checking if you can on the really small wikipedias.
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[edit]- The Spanish Wikipedia has reached the 20,000 articles milestone.
- Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
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[edit]- French Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
- Korean Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
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[edit]- Galician Wikipedia reaches 1,000 articles.
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[edit]- Wikipedia today had perhaps its worst vandalism attack yet, as a vandalbot using multiple IPs added a link to a Chinese commercial webpage to hundreds of pages on the Frisian, Galician, Guarani, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian and Albanian Wikipedias.
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[edit]- Wikipedia.org's daily Alexa rank breaks a new record! It is now at 568. [14] See Wikipedia.org is more popular than...
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[edit]- In the last week the multilingual Wikipedia has gained more than 20,000 articles, having now more than 540,000 articles (and this number increases every minute).
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[edit]- Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
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[edit]- The Indonesian Wikipedia reaches 500 articles.
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[edit]- The Polish Wikipedia reaches 25,000 articles.
February 2004
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[edit]- The press release for 500,000 articles is a great success in Germany. There is an article in the online magazine Der Spiegel and an item on the Tagesthemen in the national television station ARD.
- Wikipedia.org's one day Alexa rank drops to 593 - its best daily score ever. [15] See Wikipedia.org is more popular than...
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[edit]- The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
- Wikipedia in Portuguese has reached 2,000 articles.
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[edit]- 500,000 articles have been reached! Please see Wikimedia's first press release and start to distribute your language version of the press release.
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[edit]- The Afrikaans Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles
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[edit]- The Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles
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[edit]- The English Wikipedia has grown from 200,000 to 210,000 articles in only 17 days.
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[edit]- All sysops can now make other sysops, using Special:Makesysop. Of course, you should still need to get community approval before you make sysops.
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[edit]- A first-draft translation of LanguageGa.php has been completed.
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[edit]- Wikipedia is now running fully on the new servers; see Wikimedia servers.
- A link to Wikipedia's Cafe Press page has been added to the foundation's fund-raising page.
- The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 100 articles. Hopefully they will soon catch up with the Malay wikipedia and we can have a friendly, collaborative race!
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[edit]- The Croatian Wikipedia has reached its 2,000th article - about the Serbian language. Let's hope this becomes a sign of tolerance and cooperation!
- The changeover to the new Wikimedia servers has begun.
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[edit]- Mail outgoing from the web server, including from the "email this user" and "mail new password" features, was delayed for a few days. The mail backlog has now been delivered.
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[edit]- The Japanese Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles
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[edit]- Yippeee!! The Croatian Wikipedia has reached its first 1,000 articles! Yep, watch out, English Wikipedia, we're coming!
- German Wikipeda has reached 50,000 articles - just seconds prior the server freeze
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[edit]- Malay Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- Dutch Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles. This is almost precisely half a year after reaching 10,000.
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[edit]- Wikimedia PayPal donation summary and detail for January available at Wikimedia PayPal donations for 2004.
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[edit]- Wikipedia.org's 3-month Alexa rank goes to 868, passing Slashdot.org's 3-month rank (897) for the first time in Wikipedia history. [16] See also: Wikipedia.org is more popular than...
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[edit]- The English Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles.
January 2004
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[edit]- The new server farm have been delivered to the new colocation facility.
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[edit]- A few new features will shortly be going live
- Fractional time zones
- Page moves look nicer in recent changes
- User, contribs and rollback links at the top of diffs
- MediaWiki:Loginend displayed at the bottom of Special:Userlogin
- Hide logged in users from recent changes using Special:Recentchanges/hideliu
- Non-ASCII message names
- Link table fixed for MSG
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[edit]- Danish Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
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[edit]- The new server farm is scheduled to arrive on Friday and should be installed in some form by Monday.
- French language Wikipedia reached 25,000 articles.
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[edit]- Happy Magnus Manske Day! Two years ago today Wikipedia began switching from the old spartan UseModWiki to a new wiki system custom written by Magnus Manske specifically for the needs of a large online encyclopedia. Over time, bug fixes, and a rewrite or two, this transmogrified into the MediaWiki software that drives Wikipedia today.
- All remaining wikipedias that had been on the old wiki software have now been transferred to the new software. Many of them have just a few pages, some have several hundred; all need work -- help make Wikipedia the most thoroughly multilingual encyclopedia in town!
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[edit]- The servers have been shuffled around some more: the database server has received a RAM upgrade and en.wikipedia.org has been moved to a much faster web server, which should help speed things up.
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[edit]- Swedish Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
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[edit]- Our regular database server has been set back up (but with less RAM), which should speed things up immensely. Another backup server is being set up, and many new servers are on the way.
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[edit]- The Wikimedia Foundation bylaws have been posted for the first time.
- Server update: A powerful database server on loan from Bomis is scheduled to be installed today and the shipment of the new server farm is scheduled to arrive in late January.
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[edit]- Wikipedia has been growing for 3 years. Happy birthday! Where's the cake ?
- Want to see how Wikipedia looked on March 30, 2001? Visit Web Archive and click around (even RecentChanges works!). (although it is from 2 June rather than 30 March)
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[edit]- Polish Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
- Catalan Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
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[edit]- A link to Wikimedia PayPal donations for 2003 has been added to the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising page (at the bottom of the 'Account balances' table).
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[edit]- Japanese Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles, making it the 3rd largest Wikipedia in terms of number of articles.
- Spanish Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
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[edit]- English wikipedia has reached 190,000 articles. It took only 27 days of real time since 180,000 articles (compared to 32 days from 170,000) - despite server outages totalling several days.
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[edit]- All wikis and mailing lists should be working, but some features may be disabled because we're on a slower backup database server for now. New database backup dumps are now available at http://download.wikimedia.org