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See also : Wikimedia hardware status, Goings-on
December 2004
December 31, 2004
- The Japanese Wikiquote has reached 100 articles. It took 34 days from the 50th article. The milestone article is ja:阿倍仲麻呂, a 8th Century Japanese politician and poet. --Aphaia 08:38, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- The Polish Wikipedia has reached 50k articles. Congratulations! 50,000th article was pl:Diablo_2 by an unknown user.
December 30, 2004
- The Russian Wikipedia has reached 10 000 articles!
December 26, 2004
- Chinese wikiquote has reached 100 articles.
Christmas 2004
- The Frisian Wikipedia was once again found to be victim of a gamma test installation.
December 23, 2004
- Hard work started at the Croatian Wiktionary. So far it has reached more than 100 pages, mostly Hungarian translations. --Dubaduba 19:21, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
December 22, 2004
- 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.
December 20, 2004
- 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.
December 18, 2004
- The Hindi Wikipedia has reached 500 articles. The 500th article is about Lok Janashakti Party by hi:User:विजय टाकुर.
December 15, 2004
- 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.
December 12, 2004
- 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.
December 10, 2004
- German wikibooks reached 1000 chapters (in 124 books).
December 6, 2004
- The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 5000 articles. The 5000th article is about L'Étranger, a book by the French writer Albert Camus.
December 3, 2004
- 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. pippudoz
- The German Wikinews project started at http://de.wikinews.org.
December 2, 2004
- The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has 150 registered users. Tu Bông is user number 150.
November 2004
November 30, 2004
- The Greek Wikipedia reached 2,500 articles.
November 28, 2004
- The Gujarati Wiktionary reached 100 articles.
November 27, 2004
- 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 nl:Wikipedia:Symposium/Najaar_2004#Report_from_Rotterdam. oscar 12:53, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- The ja:wikiquote reached 50 articles. The 50th article is ja: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.
November 24, 2004
- The English Wiktionary reached 50,000 articles.
- The en:Wikipedia: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. 24.44.200.195 07:46, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
November 23, 2004
The en:wiktionary had its 50.000th article today. This is a big milestone, I want to congratulate the en:crowd with this result :) GerardM 21:57, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
November 22, 2004
- 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. :) GerardM 18:17, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Italian Wikipedia reaches 30.000 articles in the evening! The 30.000th article was Star Trek VI- Rotta verso l'ignoto by Marcok.
November 21, 2004
- The English Wikibooks reaches 5,000 modules. It is likely that the 5000th module was Wikibooks Pokédex:Omanyte by KelvSYC.
November 20, 2004
- 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
November 19, 2004
- The Polish Wikiquote reaches 500 articles. The 500th article was Wojciech Bartoszewski by MariuszR.
November 18, 2004
- 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.
November 17, 2004
- Swedish Wikipedia reaches 50.000 articles! The 50 000th article is It's Everly Time.
November 16, 2004
- 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.
November 9, 2004
- Wikimedia Commons has reached 3000 articles. The 3000th article appears to be Plains Aborigines of Taiwan.
- The Hungarian Wiktionary reaches 3000 articles.
November 8, 2004
- NL-Wikipedia reaches 40.000 articles at 15:18 CET. The 40.000th article is nl:Runo.
November 3, 2004
- The English Wikipedia now has over 1 million total pages (over a third are legitimate articles).
October, 2004
October 31, 2004
- The location of Wikimania 2005 was determined to be Frankfurt am Main. Its official name and date are still being discussed on Wikimania:Name/Vote and Wikimania:Participants. If you plan to join Wikimania, please list yourself on Wikimania:Participants.
October 30, 2004
- Images on WikiCommons can now be linked to like local images. Also, WikiCommons recently included a large number of pictures of flowers and plants.
October 29, 2004
- 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.
October 28, 2004
- Wikipedia.org's daily Alexa rank hits 218 - a new record.[1] See Wikipedia.org is more popular than....
October 25, 2004
- The board members of the French chapter were elected.
October 23, 2004
- The French chapter will have its inaugural meeting ([2]) 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 avaliable on ja:Wikipedia:ウィキペディアン・オフラインミーティング.
October 21, 2004
- The Chinese wikipedia has reached 15 000 articles.
October 20, 2004
- 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.
October 19, 2004
- The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 200 entries.
October 14, 2004
- The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 10 000 articles (Press release in Finnish)
- The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 1000 articles.
October 12, 2004
- The Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 10 000 articles (Press release in Norwegian)
- The Chinese Wikiquote has reached 50 articles.
October 10, 2004
- The Sanskrit Wikipedia now has 1,000 articles.
October 9, 2004
- The German Wikipedia reaches 150,000 articles.
October 8, 2004
October 7, 2004
- 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 #September 21, 2004. This growth depends on some active anon users.
October 5, 2004
- 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.
October 3, 2004
- 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 (also in български, english, deutsch, français, hrvatski). 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!
October 2, 2004
- The Polish Wikipedia now has 40,000 articles.
Wikipedias by number of articles | |
Milestone | Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them) |
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400,000 | English (November 20, 2004) |
300,000 | |
250,000 | |
200,000 | |
150,000 | German (October 9, 2004) |
100,000 | |
90,000 | Japanese (December 20, 2004) |
80,000 | |
70,000 | French |
60,000 | |
50,000 | Swedish (November 17, 2004); Polish (December 31, 2004) |
40,000 | Dutch (8 November, 2004) |
30,000 | Spanish (November 10, 2004); Italian (22 November, 2004); |
20,000 | Danish (5 August, 2004); Portuguese (18 September, 2004) |
15,000 | Esperanto (September 15, 2004); Chinese (21 October, 2004) |
10,000 | Hebrew (9 September, 2004); Bulgarian (3 October, 2004); Norwegian (12 October, 2004); Finnish (14 October, 2004); Catalan (16 November, 2004); Ukrainian (16 November, 2004) Romanian (11 December, 2004); Russian (30 December, 2004) |
5,000 | Slovenian (14 July, 2004); Estonian (15 July, 2004); Serbian (14 September, 2004); Korean (November 20, 2004); Indonesian (December 6, 2004) |
2,000 | Hungarian; Czech; Malay; Simple English; Latin; Croatian; Galician; Welsh; Walloon; Slovak; Afrikaans; Greek; Basque; Tatar; Luxembourgish (November 27, 2004); Asturian (November 27, 2004); Turkish (December 14, 2004) |
1,000 | Interlingua (July 31, 2003); Western Frisian (June 6, 2004); Icelandic (August 26, 2004); Arabic (August 31, 2004); Kurdish (September 13, 2004); Bosnian (September 30, 2004); Sanskrit (October 10, 2004); Lithuanian (October 14, 2004); Nynorsk (October 27, 2004); Ido (November 12, 2004); Farsi (December 15, 2004) |
500 | Persian; Thai; Low Saxon; Marathi; Sundanese (September 4, 2004); Southern Min (November 1, 2004); Belarusian (November 21, 2004); Occitan (November 24, 2004); Scots Gaelic (December 1, 2004); Latvian (December 15, 2004); Hindi (December 18, 2004) |
100 | Alemannic; Anglo-Saxon; Tamil; Irish; Kannada; Vietnamese (26 March, 2004); Urdu (June 8, 2004); Javanese (July 8, 2004); Maori (October 5, 2004); Faeroese (October 24, 2004); Serbo-Croatian (September 8, 2004); Cornish (September 15, 2004); Kashubian (October 4, 2004); Kashmiri (October 4, 2004); Tagalog (November 13, 2004); Interlingue (November 18, 2004); Sicilian (December 3, 2004); Malayalam (December 7, 2004); Albanian (December 27, 2004) |
Wiktionaries by number of articles | |
Milestone | Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them) |
---|---|
50,000 | English (November 24, 2004) |
40,000 | |
30,000 | |
20,000 | Polish |
15,000 | |
10,000 | Galician (December 22, 2004) |
5,000 | Dutch |
2,000 | Italian (November 28, 2004); Hungarian |
1,000 | Japanese; German; Swedish (October 9, 2004); French (November 14, 2004); Spanish (December 4, 2004); Latin (December 23, 2004) |
500 | Russian; Turkish (November 19, 2004); Portuguese (November 27, 2004) |
100 | Romanian; Chinese; Finnish; Hebrew; Interlingua; Esperanto (July 6, 2004); Korean (October 23, 2004); Gujarati (November 28, 2004); Dutch (November 29, 2004); Croatian (December 23, 2004) |
Archive
- Wikimedia News/2004 (includes announcements from prior to September)
- Wikimedia News/2003
- Wikimedia News/2002
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