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* Dutch, French, Spanish and Swedish Wikinews were created.
* Dutch, French, Spanish and Swedish Wikinews were created.
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''See also [[m:Wikimedia News]] and [[past events]].''
=== December 2004 ===
* All Wikimedia project has been powered by MediaWiki1.4beta
* A completely rewritten [[:en:Wikipedia:spam|spam]] filter has been incorporated into [[m:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]], which blocks URLs containing certain domains and words. The new filter comes with a greatly expanded blacklist, derived from the publically available [http://wikiblacklist.blogspot.com Wikiblacklist].
* All [[:wikt:|Wiktionaries]] became unaccessible because its domain name was expired. The problem was solved on December 17 and Wiktionary regained its connectivity.


* The [[:pl:Strona_g%C5%82%C3%B3wna|Polish Wikipedia]] reached 50,000 articles.
* The [[:ru:Заглавная страница|Russian Wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles.
* The [[:hi:मुख्य पृष्ठ|Hindi Wikipedia]] reached 500 articles.
* The [[:lv:Sākumlapa|Latvian Wikipedia]] reached 500 articles.
* The [[:ro:Pagina principală|Romanian Wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles.
* With the Romanian milestone, 20 Wikipedias now contain over 10,000 articles. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm Wikistats] has up-to-date [http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm size comparisons].
* [[:id:Main_Page|The Indonesian Wikipedia]] reached 5000 articles.
* The [[:scn:Paggina principali|Sicilian wikipedia]] reached 100 articles.

*[[:hr:wikt:Glavna stranica|Croatian Wiktionary]] reached 100 entries.
*[[:gl:wikt:Páxina Principal|Galician wiktionary]] reached 10,000 articles.

* The [[ja:q:メインページ|Japanese Wikiquote]] reached 100 articles.
*[[zh:q:|Chinese Wikiquote]] reached 100 articles.

* [[de:b:|German Wikibooks]] 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 [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=medium&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top Alexa.com].

* The [[:en:|English Wikipedia]] reached 8.00 [[:en:Special:Statistics|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 [[:el:|Greek Wikipedia]] reached 2,500 articles.
*[[:it:|Italian Wikipedia]] reached 30,000 articles.
*[[:ko:|Korean Wikipedia]] reached 5000 articles.
*[[:kn:|Kannada Wikipedia]] reached 100 articles.
*[http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pagina_principale Italian wiktionary] reached 1000 articles.
*[[:sv:|Swedish Wikipedia]] reached 50.000 articles.
* [[:ca:|Catalan wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles.
* [[:uk:Головна стаття|Ukrainian wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles.
* The swedish Wikipedia became the world's seventh biggest wiki, by page count.

* The [[:pt:wikt:Página_principal|Portuguese Wiktionary]] had reached 500 articles.
*The English Wiktionary reached 50,000 articles.
*The [[:nl:wikt:|Dutch Wiktionary]] has its 1000th word in the Dutch language. There are 7129 articles and 233 languages.
* The [http://gu.wiktionary.org Gujarati Wiktionary] reached 100 articles.

*The [[:pl:q:Strona główna|Polish Wikiquote]] reached 500 articles.

*The [[:en:b:|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 [[m:Wikimania:Main Page|Wikimania 2005]] was determined to be [[:en:Frankfurt|Frankfurt]] am Main.
* The [[Local chapters|French chapter]] had its inaugural meeting ([http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Assemblée_générale]) in Paris and via the Wiki and IRC and elected its board members.
* [[:it:Utente:Vala|Vala]], a user of the [[:it:|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.
[[Image:Vancouver-Carlos-mission.jpg|thumb|The 1000th WikiCommons file]]

* Images on Wikimedia Commons can now be linked to like local images.

* Wikipedia.org's daily Alexa rank hits 218 - a new record.[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=30d&size=large&url=www.wikipedia.org#graph] 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 [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=wikipedia.org Alexa] ranking record was 349 on September 22nd; we climbed to 260.

* The [[:zh-min-nan:|Southern Min Wikipedia]] reached 500 articles.
* The [[:fi:|Finnish Wikipedia]] reached 10 000 articles ([[:fi:Wikipedia:Lehdistötiedote 10000 artikkelia|Press release in Finnish]])
*The [[:lt:|Lithuanian Wikipedia]] reached 1000 articles.
* The [[:no:|Norwegian Wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles ([[:no:Wikipedia:Pressemeldinger/10_000_artikler|Press release in Norwegian]])
* The [[:sa:|Sanskrit Wikipedia]] reached 1,000 articles.
* [[:bg:|Bulgarian Wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles.
* The [[:pl:|Polish Wikipedia]] reached 40,000 articles.

* The [http://hi.wiktionary.org/ Hindi Wiktionary] reached 100 articles.
* [[:ja:wikt:メインページ|ウィクショナリー]], the Japanese Wiktionary, has passed 1,000 words.

* [[commons:Main Page|WikiCommons]] reached 1000 uploaded files (mostly images, but also over 100 sound fragments and 1 movie).

=== September 2004 ===
*The Foundation begins a two week [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising Fundraising drive] with the aim of raising $50,000.
* Publication of the Foundation Wikimedia, Inc Newsletter: [[Wikimedia Quarto/0409/En|Wikimedia Quarto]]

*Wikipedia reaches a total of one million articles across all languages. See the international [[m:Wikimedia press releases/One million Wikipedia articles (US)|press release]].

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February 2005

  • On February 22, two circuit breakers activating removed power from the Wikimedia servers and led to loss of all service for several hours, loss of editing ability for most of a day and slowness for a week. Uninterruptible power supplies could have reduced the effect of this incident but not all power incidents, because law requires an emergency power off switch and that has caused outages for other sites, most notably a recent one at LiveJournal. UPS systems for key systems will be used, if local law allows them.
  • The foundation began its second grobal fundraising drive on February 18. It would continue till March 11 or when we reach 75,000 USD - whichever comes first after the first week. The donations exceeded its goal by 26% in 11 days. Thanks to all who donated! Details in Fund drives/2005/Q1.

January 2005

  • Wikipedia celebrated its 4th birthday.
  • Dutch, French, Spanish and Swedish Wikinews were created.

See also m:Wikimedia News and past events.


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