Wikipedia:Announcements May 2003

Announcements for May 2003

May 29, 2003

On Monday, June 9 at 7:00pm (your local time), there might be a Wikipedia Meetup in a city near you. Go to http://wikipedia.meetup.com/ for more details.

May 28, 2003

Alexa.com shows another major Wikipedia traffic spike, in the highest traffic rank yet recorded by Alexa for Wikipedia, with Wikipedia momentarily almost touching the top 2000 rank. Wikipedia.org has now for several days achieved a higher traffic rank than Britannica.com, so it looks like we succeeded in one aspect of our goal of "beating Britannica"! (Type britannica.com after "Compare: wikipedia.org vs.") [1] (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=wikipedia&p=Det_W_g_40_M1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org%2F)

May 22, 2003

According to Alexa.com (http://www.alexa.com), Wikipedia has momentarily entered their list of the top 3000 highest traffic sites on the Web. [2] (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=wikipedia&p=Det_W_g_40_M1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org%2F) Wikipedia traffic continues to rise, and the new server performance remains stable.

The Polish Wikipedia (http://pl.wikipedia.org/) reached 10,000 articles

May 17, 2003

An oft-requested change, the edit preview display now will show above the edit box by default. Existing user accounts may wish to change their settings (Special:Preferences); new accounts and anonymous contributors will see the new behavior automatically.

May 16, 2003

The French Wikipedia (http://fr.wikipedia.org/) reached 10,000 articles.

After some delays and birthing pains, the English-language 'pedia is now running on the new web server, giving the database (and the other languages!) some breathing room. Please see Wikipedia:New server madness to report any troubles.

May 13, 2003

The English-language Wikipedia will be switched over to use the new web server at 6:00 UTC, Wednesday 14 May 2003. (11pm US Pacific, 2am US Eastern, 7am UK, 8am Europe; others check your timezone). It may take a few hours for the DNS change to propagate through the internet; during the changeover if you find yourself still attached to the old machine you will be temporarily unable to upload files or see some newly uploaded images, but should still be able to read and edit wiki pages. The new server's ip address is 130.94.122.199

May 11, 2003

The German Wikipedia (http://de.wikipedia.org/) reached 15,000 articles. The English Wikipedia has increased by 20% since January 2003 to 120,000 articles.

At May 7 the English Wikipedia contained 126444 'articles' in a wider sense than above (counting all namespace 0 records, except redirect pages (404120), not counting other namespaces (meta info like discussion pages). 1915744 hyperlinks existed between these articles.

May 10, 2003

Congratulations! You just received 100 WikiDollars (also known as WikiEuros) and are free to spend them immediately. See Wikipedia:WikiMoney for the details.

May 9, 2003

The main server crashed again this morning (USA) and was down for a few hours; we will be investigating possible hardware problems tomorrow. The new server is being configured so it will be able to provide a read-only mirror of Wikipedia on future occasions of downtime on the database server.