Wikipedia:Announcements January 2003

Current announcements - February 2003 - December 2002

Table of contents 1 Announcements for January 2003 1.1 January 30, 2003 1.2 January 28, 2003 1.3 January 24, 2003 1.4 January 22, 2003 1.5 January 21, 2003 1.6 January 17, 2003 1.7 January 16, 2003 1.8 January 15, 2003 1.9 January 10, 2003 1.10 January 9, 2003 1.11 January 7, 2003 1.12 January 6, 2003

Announcements for January 2003

January 30, 2003

The Guardian has an article about us. The online version is here: Common Knowledge (http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,884666,00)

January 28, 2003

Wired News has an article about us here (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57364,00).

January 24, 2003

Distributed Proofreaders is currently working on the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Head over to their website (http://texts01.archive.org/dp/default.php) and give them a hand!

January 22, 2003

Well we asked for it and it is here yet again: Wikipedia is being Slashdotted. See [1] (http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/22/0258226.shtml?tid=149) Call out the Wikipedia:Volunteer Fire Department - you know the drill.

January 21, 2003

We reached 100,000 articles! Please help distribute our 2003 Press Release.

January 17, 2003

In an interview (http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2003/Jan/hour1_011703) on NPR's "Talk of the Nation - Science Friday", Bruce Perens made a special point of referencing Wikipedia as an example of an OpenSource project.

January 16, 2003

A press release is being prepared for publication when the English Wikipedia hits the 100,000 article milestone. Please help us finish this before it is submitted to news organizations. See: Wikipedia:2003 Press Release.

January 15, 2003

With well over 130,000 articles spread across 28 languages, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, turns 2 years old today. Several Wikipedia contributors (Wikipedians), in the collaborative spirit which has brought us so far, have redesigned the Main Page for the English Wikipedia in celebration of Wikipedia's birthday.

During the first year of its existence, Wikipedia went from zero to 20,000 articles in the English version and that was considered to be an impressive growth rate. The second year of Wikipedia saw the addition of nearly 80,000 more articles in the English version alone, making it the world's largest Wiki and the world's largest free content encyclopedia. With edits being made 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by hundreds of bright and enthusiastic volunteers from around the world, who knows where we will be one year from today?

Our original goal was to make 100,000 articles, and at the time we speculated that this might take us five or more years. We now know that the 100,000 article milestone is just the tip of the iceberg. The power of the collaborative WikiWiki editing model, the freedom that the GNU Free Documentation License gives us, and our strong nonbias policy (the neutral point of view), combined with our goal of creating the world's largest encyclopedia will ensure the continued growth and success of our project.

Many people have told us that we would fail. "What?" they said, "You let anyone edit anytime they wish? It is preposterous to think that anything of any value could be created that way. You are destined to fail!" It is, however, becoming more and more apparent with each passing day that they are wrong. Let's celebrate Wikipedia Day by continuing to build the world's best encyclopedia!

A press release is being prepared for publication when the English version of Wikipedia (the oldest one) hits the 100,000 article milestone.

January 10, 2003

Sometime early Friday morning the Main Page registered one million page views. The counter was started on August 25.

January 9, 2003

First Monday (http://www.firstmonday.org) mentions Wikipedia in their article The Institutional Design of Open Source Programming (http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_1/schweik/index) as an example of OpenSource-like non-programming cases.

Lars Aronsson presented a paper about his Wiki susning.nu (http://aronsson.se/wikipaper) at a conference on electronic publishing. The article also contains an introduction to the Wiki concept and describes Wikipedia as a prominent example.

January 7, 2003

Wikipedia has vanished from Google's listings, except for page titles alone. This appears to have been caused by an error in the robots.txt file, and should be fixed the next time Google spiders Wikipedia.

January 6, 2003

Inline TeX math formulas are now supported. By default, simple formulas are turned into plain HTML, while complex ones are rendered as images (logged-in users can tweak the math rendering settings in their preferences). See Wikipedia:TeX markup for more.