Wikipedia:Announcements February 2003

Announcements for February 2003

February 26, 2003

• Enciclopedia Libre, the fork of http://es.wikipedia.org is one year old today.

February 22, 2003

• Help Wikipedia find a mascot!

February 19, 2003

• The Lithuanian Wikipedia has now been started, Lithuanian Wikipedia (http://lt.wikipedia.com)

February 10, 2003

• The database has been reorganized, which required a few hours of downtime. Thanks to the reorganization, page histories, contribution lists and the random page feature should now be a lot faster. See the wikitech-l mailing list for details, and subscribe if you want to help with further MySQL optimizations to speed up Wikipedia!
• SearchDay[?] - a search engine news mailing list - has a feature article about us here (http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/03/sd0210-wikipedia).

February 3, 2003

• The following 1/8-page ad was published on the back cover of the Pasporta Servo 2003, the best distributed book annually in Esperanto, which should reach 1600 active Esperanto speakers: