Wikipedia:2003
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This page is a chronology of events in year 2003 directly related to Wikipedia and Wikipedians, both within Wikipedia and in the whole wide world. Wikipedia events and events in sister projects (Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc.) are listed as long as they are related to Wikipedia.
Additions to this page must follow certain rules,[a] because it is hoped that in 50 years or so this page will become a valuable source of scholar research.
Events
[edit]- January 6: Support for mathematical formulas in TeX is added.
- January 22: The English Wikipedia is slashdotted after creating its 100,000th article.
- October 1: The results of the international logo contest are ratified[1]; the winning logo is the puzzle sphere by m:User:Paullusmagnus.
- October 12: The finalised Wikipedia logo, created by user:Nohat from the winning logo, is accepted into the English Wikipedia.
- October 28: The first "in the fleisch" meeting of Wikipedians occurs in Munich.
Features
[edit]- July 9: Wikipedia:Sites that use Wikipedia for content, now Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks, is created by user:Mbecker.
- December 6: User:Mattworld creates a sandbox which, 4 days later, is moved to Template:Stub.[2]
- December 19: User:MyRedDice, now MartinHarper (talk · contribs), imports the concept of Wikipedia:Barnstars from MeatBallWiki.
Organizations
[edit]Wikipedias
[edit]- 2003
- The Vietnamese Wikipedia is created.
- The first articles are created in the Simple English Wikipedia.
- The Latvian Wikipedia is created.
- January 25: Wikipedia:WikiProject Music is created by TUF-KAT (talk · contribs).
- February 16: The Serbian Wikipedia is created.
- February 20: The first article is created on the Lithuanian Wikipedia.
- June 2003: The Romanian Wikipedia is created.
- July 2003
- The Arabic Wikipedia is created.
- The Hindi Wikipedia is created.
- The Hebrew Wikipedia is created.
- July 8: The Hungarian Wikipedia is created.
- August 12: The Malay Wikipedia is created.
- September 2003: The Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia is created.
- October 2003: The Slovak Wikipedia is created. It becomes active in the summer of 2004.
- October 12: The Albanian Wikipedia is created.
- November 7: The Indonesian Wikipedia is created.
- November 13: The Alemannic Wikipedia is created.
- December 2003: The Thai Wikipedia is created.
- December 5: The Icelandic Wikipedia is created.
- December 23: The main page of the Romansh Wikipedia is created.
Other
[edit]- June 20: The Wikimedia Foundation is founded.
- December 8: The Wikipedia:Mediation Committee is created by Jimbo Wales
Holidays
[edit]- October 31: Wikipedia:Tim Starling Day: the new parsing algorithm, running twice as fast as the previous one, is implemented by user:Tim Starling.
Wikipedian status changes
[edit]Adminship granted
[edit]- January 2003:
- February 2003:
- March 2003:
- Fred Bauder (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- LittleDan (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- JohnOwens (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- MyRedDice (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Oliver Pereira (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Sannse (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Sheldon Rampton (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Tim Starling (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Zoe (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- March 10: Cordyph (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- April 2003:
- May 2003:
- Dante Alighieri (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Evercat (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Hephaestos (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Jimfbleak (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Kingturtle (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Minesweeper (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Slrubenstein (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Someone else (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- The Anome (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- May 12: 172 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- May 22: Kils (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- June 2003:
- Angela (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Anthere (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Bdesham (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Cimon avaro (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Cgs (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Cyp (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Deb (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- G-Man (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Goatasaur (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Jdforrester (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Jtdirl (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Ktsquare (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Mbecker (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Menchi (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Olivier (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Phil Bordelon (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Poor Yorick (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Quercusrobur (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Ram-Man (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Smith03 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Theresa knott (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- June 1: Kosebamse (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- June 20: Ilyanep (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- June 30: PMA (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- July 2003:
- AntonioMartin (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- CYD (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Delirium (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Dwheeler (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Fantasy (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Jiang (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Jimregan (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Marumari (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Merphant (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- RickK (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Zanimum (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Zippy (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- August 2003:
- August 5: Stevertigo (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- September 2003:
- Alex756 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Dgrant (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Dysprosia (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Heron (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Jnc (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- John Kenney (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Jwrosenzweig (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Llywrch (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Marshman (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Modemac (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Nanobug (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Patrick (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Paul A (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Vancouverguy (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Viajero (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- October 2003:
- Arwel Parry (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Daniel Quinlan (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Efghij (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Evil saltine (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Fuzheado (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Jake Nelson (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Snoyes (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Stan Shebs (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Sugarfish (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- October 3: Ark30inf (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- November 2003:
- Christopher Mahan (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- DavidLevinson (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Dori (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Ihcoyc (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Morwen (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Muriel Gottrop (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Pratyeka (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Secretlondon (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Tristanb (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- December 2003:
- Andres (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Bcorr (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Dieter Simon (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Docu (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Khym Chanur (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Finlay McWalter (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Michael Hardy (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Pakaran (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Raul654 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- SimonP (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Timwi (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- Ugen64 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- WhisperToMe (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- December 6: 168... (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
Online births
[edit]- January 10, 06:38 UTC: User:Michael Hardy (user page created)
- January 28, 02:46: User:Maveric149 (user page created)
- January 30, 03:41: User:Ahoerstemeier (user page created)
- February 21, 00:21: User:Angela (user page created, first logged edit)
- June 11, 20:36: User:Charles Matthews (user page created)
- July 10, 05:01: User:WhisperToMe (first apparent edit)
- August 31, 12:02: User:WhisperToMe (user page created)
- September 8, 02:23: User:Secretlondon (first logged edit)
- October 14, 05:09: User:Dale Arnett (user page created)
- October 26, 11:40: User:RedWolf (user page created)
- October 30, 07:44 (first edit), 11:44 (user page created): Altenmann (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
- November 27: Humus sapiens (t · c · b · p · d · m · r) (first logged edit)
See also
[edit]- 2003
- Wikipedia:Press coverage 2003
- Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2003
- Wikipedia Milestones
- History of Wikipedia
- Category:Wikipedia news
Notes
[edit]- ^ While formally Wikipedia:Verifiability and others of Wikipedia's content-controlling policies do not apply outside the main namespace, they must be strictly followed here, for the sake of scholarly discipline:
- The listed event and its date must be mentioned in a wikilinked or externally linked reference. It is advised to consider an external link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page rather than a wikilink, if this page is linked for a critical but volatile piece of information.
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- Trivial events must be avoided:
- Random mentioning of Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.
- Routine Wikipedia activities, such as a promotion of an article to featured state, are generally not listed here, unless such events generate significant buzz outside its normal working scope.