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==Events==
*[[January 2004]]: [[Wikipedia]] reaches '''200,000''' articles in English and '''450,000'''  articles in all languages.
*[[January 30]]: The first article is written on the [[Ukrainian Wikipedia]].
*[[February 25]]: [[Wikipedia:Press releases/February 2004|Wikipedia reaches '''500,000''' articles]] in 50 languages.
*[[April 20]]: The English Wikipedia reaches ''250,000'' articles.
*[[May 12]]: Wikipedia wins the Annual [[Webby Award]] in the "Community" category.<ref>"[http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/winners-2004.php Webby Awards 2004]"</ref>
*[[June 2]]: Wikipedia is [[Blocking of Wikipedia in mainland China|blocked for the first time in Mainland China]].
*[[July 7]]: The English Wikipedia reaches '''300,000''' articles.
*[[June 23]]: Wikipedia wins a Golden Nica for Digital Communities of the annual [[Prix Ars Electronica]] contest. See [[m:Golden Nica Awards 2004]].
*[[September 9]]: Guillaume Blanchard, known as Aoineko (see his user pages in the [[:ja:利用者:Aoineko|Japanese]] and [[:fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Aoineko|French]] Wikipedias) is awarded the [[Web Creation Award]] as the founder of the [[Japanese Wikipedia]] by the [[Japan Advertisers Association]].
*[[September 20]]: Wikipedia reaches '''1,000,000 articles''' [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PR-1mil-US] in over 105 languages.
*[[November 2]]: The [[Wikipedia:Danny's contest/winners|winners]] of the 1st [[Wikipedia:Danny's contest|Danny's contest]] (Best New Article) are announced.
*[[November 20]]: The article count of the English Wikipedia reaches '''400,000'''.
*[[November 28]]: The first article is created on the [[Yiddish Wikipedia]].

==Features==
*[[January 26]]: {{user|Tim Starling}} introduces the concept of [[:Image:Barn star free zone.png|barnstar-free zones]].
*[[February 22]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Did_you_know&oldid=2500457 The first] ''[[WP:DYK|Did You Know]]'' is posted, featuring the article "[[Pencil sharpener]]" which was created by [[User:Raul654]] on February 15, 2004.
*[[May 14]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Pic_of_the_day&oldid=3817007 The first] [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day|picture of the day]] is posted.
*[[May 30]]: A [[Wikipedia:Categorization|categorization]] scheme is introduced in Wikipedia.
*[[June 11]]: The [[m:Wikistress|Wikistress]] [[:Image:Wikistress1.png|gauge is created]] after being suggested by [[User:Raul654]].
*[[July 23]]: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history|WikiProject "Military history"]] recognizes the deficiency of "NewPages" for tracking new articles and creates the first manually-operated list of new articles by topic, [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/New articles]], followed by  [[:Category:Wikipedia new articles]]. 

==Organizations==
===Establishments===
*[[2004]]
**The [[Luxembourgish Wikipedia]] is created.
**The [[Ido Wikipedia]] is created.
**The [[Kurdish Wikipedia]] is created.
**The [[Georgian Wikipedia]] is created.
*[[January 2004]]
**The [[Urdu Wikipedia]] is created.
**The [[Persian Wikipedia]] is created.
**The [[Galician Wikipedia]] is created.
*[[February 4]]: The [[Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates]] created. It is discontinued in [[Wikipedia:2007|2007]].
*[[February 18]] 
**The Community Main Page (now known as [[Wikipedia:Community Portal]]) is launched.
**The user category [[Wikipedia:Bureaucrats]] is established. The first bureaucrats are Angela, Eloquence, Secretlondon, Stan Shebs and TUF-KAT.
*[[March 2004]]: The [[Yiddish Wikipedia]] is founded.
*[[May 27]]: The [[Aromanian Wikipedia]] is created.
*[[June 2004]] The Klingon Wikipedia is created. It is locked in August 2005.
*[[July 31]]: The Nynorsk-specific [[Norwegian Wikipedia]] is launched.
*[[August 2004]]:
**The [[Divehi Wikipedia]] is created.
**[[Wapedia]], a website created to deliver Wikipedia to [[mobile phone]]s and [[Personal digital assistant|PDAs]] is launched.
*[[August 12]]: The [[Belarusian Wikipedia]] is created.
*[[October 4]]: The [[Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia]] is created.
*[[October 7]], 21:44: [[Wikipedia:Wikifun]], then known as Wikihunt, starts with the question "Find out the three countries involved in the Battle of Bunei".
*[[October 27]]: [[Wikipedia:Department of Fun]] is established.
*[[December 2004]]: The  [[Azerbaijani Wikipedia]] is created.

===Dissolutions===

==Holidays==
*[[June 1]]: '''[[Wikipedia:Brion Vibber Day|Brion Vibber Day]]''' commemorates the great works of Brion Vibber, Wikipedia's lead developer.

==Online births==
*[[January 3]], 22:33: [[User:Lysy]] (first edit)
*[[February 13]], 04:16: [[User:Everyking]] (user page created)
*[[February 20]], 23:07: [[User:Jdavidb]] (first registered edit, user page created)
*[[March 3]], 17:43: [[User:BillyH]] (first logged-in edit) 
*[[July 21]], 10:44: [[User:Dbachmann]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Z%FCrich&diff=prev&oldid=4872951 first logged-in edit])
*[[August 20]], 02:34: [[User:Paul August]] (first edit, user page created)
*[[October 14]], 03:20: [[User:Grutness]] (user page created)
*[[December 7]], 07:03: [[User:Ghirlandajo]] (first logged-in edit)

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