Wikipedia:2005
This page is a chronology of events in year 2005 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 10, the first issue of Wikipedia Signpost was published.
- January 23, Winners of the 2nd Danny's contest (Best New Article) announced.
- January 27, the founders of Polish Wikipedia, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz and Paweł Jochym, received the award Internet Citizen of the Year 2004 issued by the society Internet Obywatelski ("Public Internet").[1]
- February 21: All Wikimedia Florida servers went offline. Full recovery required 24 hours. Lessons were learned.
- March 18, the 500,000-th article was created: Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union.
- August 4-8: the first Wikimania was held in Frankfurt, Germany.
- November 29, John Seigenthaler Sr. publishes an op-ed in USA Today, about vandalism to his article. (See John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy)
- December 14, Nature published Internet encyclopedias go head to head, a comparison study of Wikipedia vs. Encyclopaedia Britannica. See Wikipedia:External peer review/Nature December 2005 for a detailed study of the event.
Features
[edit]- March 5, Kelson of fr:wp introduced the concept of language icons to tag exterlal links (cf. April 17)
- April 17, Zantastik imported from fr:wp to en:wp the concept of language icons (cf. March 5)
- May 8, Wikipedia:mediation Cabal started (dissolved in July 2012)
- July 16, the English Wikipedia began the practice of including the day's featured picture on the main page.
- October 3: This week two new criteria for speedy deletions were added: blatant copyvio and Jimbo's suggestion about orphaned fair-use images
- December 5 Wikipedia user registration became obligatory for the creation of a new article, as a consequence of the Seigenthaler controversy.
- December 20: {{languageicon}} was introduced by Easyas12c to unify language icon templates (cf. April 17)
- December 22, Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy was implemented
Organizations
[edit]Establishments
[edit]- 2005 Neapolitan Wikipedia created
- January 2005, Uncyclopedia, a parody of wikipedia was launched "as a response to the demand in BJAODN page for a place to put their nonsense."
- February 2005, Armenian Wikipedia (Armenian (Հայերեն)) created
- February 5, the first Wikipedia:Wikiportal, since renamed to Portal:Biology was created.
- June 11, WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles is a WikiProject was formed to better organize the creation of articles that exist in other notable encyclopedias, including print encyclopedias and other language Wikipedias, that should exist in the English Wikipedia. The project was started by Bluemoose (talk · contribs)
- June 23, Scots Wikipedia created
- July 6 a sandbox wikigame Wikipedia:Sandbox/Word_Association started, nominated for deletion, but survived
- October 24, Wikipedia:Bounty board was established, where Bounty Keepers donate bounty money to Wikimedia Foundation in the name of the "Bounty Hunters" for a job done within a deadline.
- October 7, Wikipedia:Personal attack intervention noticeboard established (on Jan. 10, 2007 it was shut down as deteriorated)
- October 8: The Institute of Wikipediology was initiated. Marked as inactive on November 5, 2006
- October 28: wikipedia calendar effort was started by user:Altenmann. It was met with unexpected hostility and part of it was even quickly deleted.
Dissolutions
[edit]- December 22: Wikipedia:Friends of Wikipedia, created in 2001 to list webpages which link to wikipedia, was deleted after outliving its utility.
Wikipedians
[edit]Online births
[edit]- January 31 15:56, Bluemoose (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
- March 24, Bhadani (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
Adminship granted
[edit]- September 18, Bhadani (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)
Death and retirement
[edit]- June 21 12:08 RickK (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), admin (last words: There is a fatal flaw in the system. Vandals, trolls and malactors are given respect, whereas those who are here to actually create an encyclopedia, and to do meaningful work, are slapped in the face and not given the support needed to do the work they need to do. ) His exit came after a revert war where he was removing a copyright violation, in which he was blocked for violating the three revert rule by a fellow administrator. (see here)
- July 21: Kwantus (talk · contribs) (Hume Cottnam Llewellyn Smith) died
- December 12, Wiglaf (talk · contribs) (May 29 2003 (anon) January 31, 2004 (named) — December 12, 2006) left wikipedia: I just lost the last reason to stay on Wikipedia. Good bye forever, fellow Wikipedians.
See also
[edit]- 2005
- Wikipedia:Press coverage 2005
- Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2005
- 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.
- Credible sources must be used only. Within Wikipedia, Wikipedia Signpost is one of them.
- 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.
References
[edit]- ^ Internetowy Obywatel Roku 2004, 2005-01-27 (in Polish)