This page is a chronology of events in year 2006 directly related to Wikipedia and Wikipedians, both within Wikipedia and in the whole wide world. Wikimedia 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,[1] because it is hoped that in 50 years or so this page will become a valuable source of scholar research.
Events
- January 2006 : all wikipedias exceed 1, 000, 000, 000 words
- January 4: The English language version of Wikipedia arrived at the 900,000 article mark.
- January 10: Wikipedia® became a registered trademark of Wikimedia Foundation.
- January 23: Jimbo Wales announced the appointment of a new Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee, increasing the committee size to 15.
- 17 February: MIT computer science professor Carl Hewitt banned from editing articles of his expertise for undue and persistent self-promotion. In about 2 years the case was reported by Guardian Unlimited.[2]
- February 27, a milistone for the WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles: the last of the 14,707 missing Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition articles was added to wikipedia
- February 28: The millionth user account was registered for the English language edition.
- March 1, 23.09 GMT: Wikipedia produces the 1,000,000-th English article, "Jordanhill railway station". See also m:Wikimedia press releases/English Wikipedia hits milestone 1 million articles. Wikipedia talk:1m-PR-en lists those who were going for it.
- On March 28, CBS Evening News airs a special report about Wikipedia.
- On April 4, the first CD selection in English was published as a free download see Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download[1]
- April 19: An archetypal uninformed but relentless wikipedia user Randy in Boise was introduced to public
- May 11, It was anounced that Category:Living people reached 90,000 biography articles.
- On June 8, the English language Wikipedia passed the 1,000 featured article mark.[2]
- August 4-6: the second Wikimania was held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- August 16, the 100,000-th article, ru:Амальрик, Леонид Алексеевич, was created in Russian wikipedia.
- September 24, User:Eloquence was declared the winner of the elections to wikimedia m:Board of Trustees
- September 26, User:Eloquence joins the Wikimedia m:Board of Trustees
- October 17 a pilot project for Citizendium, an intended "expert-friendly" fork of Wikipedia, was launched.
- November 4, a Wikipedia meetup occurred in Philadelphia
- November 9, winners of the 3rd Danny's contest (a writing competition) announced.
- November 12 the Chinese Wikipedia produces the 100,000-th new article
- November 23 the German Wikipedia produces the 500,000-th new article, thus becoming the second national wikipedia reaching this milestone
- November 24
- November 27, the French Wikipedia produces the 400,000-th new article
- November 29, the Russian Wikipedia wins the Russian national Internet award, Runet Prize in the Science and Education category (news release, in Russian).
- December 2006:
- December 4, Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006
- December 8:
- December 9
- December 26/December 27: edit count in wikipedia rolled over 100,000,000 edits since July 2002 according to the counter seen in Special:Statistics. This was noticed at least twice, see here and here. This rolling up and down of the counter is explained by deletion of articles.
Features
Orgnizations
Establishments
Dissolutions
Wikipedian status changes
Online births
Adminship
De-adminship
Death and retirement
See also
References
- ^ 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 WP: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.
- ^ Kleeman, Jenny (2007-12-09). "Wikipedia ban for disruptive professor". Guardian Unlimited. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/dec/09/wikipedia.internet. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ "Opening my eyes to a whole new world" @ google blog
- ^ WikiProject_report @ Signpost
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-15/2006 in review