2004
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Events
- January 2004, Wikipedia passed the 200,000 article milestone in English and reached 450,000 articles for both English and non-English wikis.
- January 30, the first article was written in Ukrainian Wikipedia
- February 25, Wikipedia reaches 500,000 articles in 50 languages.
- April 20, the article count of the English wiki reached 250,000.
- May 12, Wikipedia wins the Annual Webby Award in the "Community" category.<ref>"Webby Awards 2004"</ref>
- May 30, Categorization scheme was introduced in Wikipedia.
- June 2, the first blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China.
- July 7, the article count of the English wiki reached 300,000
- June 11, Wikistress gauge created, suggested by Raul654
- June 23, Wikipedia won a Golden Nica for Digital Communities of the annual Prix Ars Electronica contest, see m:Golden Nica Awards 2004
- July 23, the WikiProject "Military history" recognized the deficiency of "Newpages" for tracking new articles and created the first "manually-operated" list of new article by topic, Military history/New articles, — followed by many.
- September 9, Guillaume Blanchard, known as Aoineko (see his user pages in the Japanese and French Wikipedias) was awarded the Web Creation Award as the founder of the Japanese Wikipedia by the Japan Advertisers Association.
- September 20, Wikipedia reached one million articles [1] in over 105 languages
- November 2, winners of the 1st Danny's contest (Best New Article) announced.
- November 20, the article count of the English wiki reached 400,000.
- November 28, first article in Yiddish Wikipedia
Establishments
- 2004
- Luxembourgish Wikipedia created
- Ido Wikipedia created
- Kurdish Wikipedia created
- Georgian Wikipedia created
- January 2004
- Urdu Wikipedia created
- Persian Wikipedia created
- Galician Wikipedia created
- February 18
- Community Main Page (now known as Wikipedia:Community Portal) was launched.
- the user category, Wikipedia:Bureaucrats, established, the first b'krats being Angela, Eloquence, Secretlondon, Stan Shebs, TUF-KAT
- March 2004, Yiddish Wikipedia founded
- May 27, Aromanian Wikipedia (Aromanian (Armâneashti)) created
- June 2004 Klingon language wikipedia (tlhIngan Hol) created
- July 31, Nynorsk-specific Norwegian Wikipedia version (nn: ) launched
- August 2004:
- Divehi Wikipedia started
- Wapedia, a website to deliver wikipedia contents to mobile phones and PDAs launched
- October 4, Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia (Englisc) created
- October 7, 21:44, Wikipedia:Wikifun, then known as "Wikihunt" started, with question "Find out the three countries involved in the Battle of Bunei". (As of 00:40, 31 March 2006 (UTC), the word "wikihunt" still sits in 11 google hits.
- December 2004, Azerbaijani Wikipedia (Azerbaijani (Azərbaycan) آذربایجان) created
Holidays
- June 1: Brion Vibber Day: commemorates the great works of Brion Vibber, Wikipedia lead developer.
Online births
- January 3: User:Lysy (22:33) (first edit on en-wiki)
- February 13: User:Everyking (04:16) (user page created)
- 2004-02-20: User:Jdavidb (23:07:51) (first registered edit, user page created)
- March 3: User:BillyH (17:43) (first logged in edit)
- July 21: User:Dbachmann (10:44) (first logged in edit)
- August 20: User:Paul August(02:34 first edit, user page created)
- August 21: User:Willy on wheels (00:43)(first logged-in edit)
- October 14: User:Grutness (03:20) (user page created)
- December 7: User:Ghirlandajo (07:03) (first logged-in edit)
See also
References
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