Archive:Past events
These are events around Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. See also current events.
December 2004
- All Wikimedia project has been powered by MediaWiki1.4beta
- 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.
- All Wiktionaries became unaccessible because its domain name was expired. The problem was solved on December 17 and Wiktionary regained its connectivity.
- The Polish Wikipedia reached 50,000 articles.
- The Russian Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles.
- The Hindi Wikipedia reached 500 articles.
- The Latvian Wikipedia reached 500 articles.
- The Romanian Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles.
- With the Romanian milestone, 20 Wikipedias now contain over 10,000 articles. Wikistats has up-to-date size comparisons.
- The Indonesian Wikipedia reached 5000 articles.
- The Sicilian wikipedia reached 100 articles.
- Croatian Wiktionary reached 100 entries.
- Galician wiktionary reached 10,000 articles.
- The reached 100 articles.
- reached 100 articles.
- reached 1000 chapters (in 124 books).
- The English Wikinews project has left the demo stage and now resides at http://en.wikinews.org - more languages will follow soon.
- The German Wikinews project started at http://de.wikinews.org.
November 2004
- In Rotterdam the first Wikipedia Symposium was held. It was a great success, with over 40 people present, among which were were three trustees, Jimmy Wales, Angela Beesly and Florence Nibart Devouard.
- Wikipedia.org is the 172nd most visited site on the Internet according to Alexa.com.
- The English Wikipedia reached 8.00 average edits per page, suggesting increasing quality even with increasing quantity.
- The English Wikipedia has over 1 million total pages (over a third are legitimate articles).
- The Greek Wikipedia reached 2,500 articles.
- Italian Wikipedia reached 30,000 articles.
- Korean Wikipedia reached 5000 articles.
- Kannada Wikipedia reached 100 articles.
- Italian wiktionary reached 1000 articles.
- Swedish Wikipedia reached 50.000 articles.
- Catalan wikipedia reached 10,000 articles.
- Ukrainian wikipedia reached 10,000 articles.
- The swedish Wikipedia became the world's seventh biggest wiki, by page count.
- The Portuguese Wiktionary had reached 500 articles.
- The English Wiktionary reached 50,000 articles.
- The Dutch Wiktionary has its 1000th word in the Dutch language. There are 7129 articles and 233 languages.
- The Gujarati Wiktionary reached 100 articles.
- The Polish Wikiquote reached 500 articles.
- The English Wikibooks reached 5,000 modules.
October 2004
- We have exceeded our goal of raising 50,000 dollars in two weeks. Thanks to all who donated!
- The location of Wikimania 2005 was determined to be Frankfurt am Main.
- The French chapter had its inaugural meeting ([1]) in Paris and via the Wiki and IRC and elected its board members.
- 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.
- Images on Wikimedia Commons can now be linked to like local images.
- Wikipedia.org's daily Alexa rank hits 218 - a new record.[2] See m:Wikipedia.org is more popular than....
- 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; we climbed to 260.
- The Southern Min Wikipedia reached 500 articles.
- The Finnish Wikipedia reached 10 000 articles (Press release in Finnish)
- The Lithuanian Wikipedia reached 1000 articles.
- The Norwegian Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles (Press release in Norwegian)
- The Sanskrit Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles.
- Bulgarian Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles.
- The Polish Wikipedia reached 40,000 articles.
- The Hindi Wiktionary reached 100 articles.
- ウィクショナリー, the Japanese Wiktionary, has passed 1,000 words.
- WikiCommons reached 1000 uploaded files (mostly images, but also over 100 sound fragments and 1 movie).
September 2004
- The Foundation begins a two week Fundraising drive with the aim of raising $50,000.
- Publication of the Foundation Wikimedia, Inc Newsletter: Wikimedia Quarto
- Wikipedia reaches a total of one million articles across all languages. See the international press release.