Wiki143:2003
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Events
- 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.
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Features
- 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 Script error: No such module "user"., imports the concept of Wikipedia:Barnstars from MeatBallWiki.
Organizations
Wikipedias
- 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 Script error: No such module "user"..
- 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
- June 20: The Wikimedia Foundation is founded.
- December 8: The Wikipedia:Mediation Committee is created by Jimbo Wales
Holidays
- 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
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Online births
- January 10, 06:38 UTC: User:Michael Hardy (user page created)
- January 30, 03:41: User:Ahoerstemeier (user page created)
- January 30, : User:Stan Shebs, 06:59: (first logged edit with correct date; see explanation of incorrectly dated earlier edits at Template:Section link)
- 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): Template:Admin-abbr
- November 27: Template:Admin-abbr (first logged edit)