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==Events==
*[[January 10]], [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-01-10|the first issue]] of ''[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|Wikipedia Signpost]]'' was published.
*[[January 23]], Winners of the 2nd [[Wikipedia:Danny's contest|Danny's contest]] (Best New Article) announced.
*[[January 27]], the founders of [[Polish Wikipedia]], [[Krzysztof Jasiutowicz|Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz]] and [[Paweł Jochym]], received the award [[Internet Citizen of the Year]] 2004 issued by the society [[Internet Obywatelski]] ("Public Internet").<ref>[http://media.netpr.pl/notatka_30516.html Internetowy Obywatel Roku 2004], 2005-01-27 {{in lang|pl}} </ref>

*[[February 21]]: All Wikimedia [[m:February 2005 server crash|Florida servers went offline]]. Full recovery required 24 hours. Lessons were learned.
*[[March 18]], [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-03-21/Half-million articles|the '''500,000'''-th article]] was created: [[Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union]].
*[[August 4]]-[[August 8|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 (journal)|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==
*[[March 5]], Kelson of fr:wp [http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mod%C3%A8le:en_icon&action=history introduced] the concept of language icons to tag exterlal links <small>(cf. April 17)</small>
*[[April 17]], Zantastik [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Fr_icon&diff=prev&oldid=17407667 imported from fr:wp] to en:wp the concept of [[:category:Language icon templates|language icons]] <small>(cf. March 5)</small>
*[[May 8]], [[Wikipedia:mediation Cabal]] started (dissolved in [[wikipedia:2012|July 2012]])
*[[July 16]], the English Wikipedia began the practice of including the day's [[Wikipedia:Featured pictures|featured picture]] on the [[Main Page|main page]].
*[[October 3]]: This week two new criteria for speedy deletions were added: [[Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Proposal/Blatant_copyvio_material|blatant copyvio]] and [[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo's]] suggestion about orphaned [[fair-use]] images
*[[December 5]] [[Wikipedia:Tutorial_(Registration)|Wikipedia user registration]] [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-12-05/Page_creation_restrictions|became obligatory]] for the creation of a [[Special:Newpages|new article]], as a consequence of the Seigenthaler controversy.
*[[December 20]]: {{tl|languageicon}} was introduced by  Easyas12c to unify [[:category:Language icon templates|language icon templates]] <small>(cf. April 17)</small>
*[[December 22]], [[Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy]] [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-12-26/Semi-protection|was implemented]]

==Organizations==
===Establishments===
*[[2005]] [[Neapolitan Wikipedia]] created 
*[[January 2005]], [[Uncyclopedia]], a parody of wikipedia was launched  "as a response to the demand in [[Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense|BJAODN]] page for a place to put their nonsense."
*[[February 2005]],  [[Armenian Wikipedia]] ([[:hy:|Armenian (&#1344;&#1377;&#1397;&#1381;&#1408;&#1381;&#1398;)]]) [[Wikipedia:Multilingual coordination|created]]
*[[February 5]], the first [[Wikipedia:Wikiportal]], since renamed to [[Portal:Biology]] was created.
*[[June 11]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles|WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles]] is a [[WP:PROJ|WikiProject]]  was formed to better organize the creation of articles that exist in other notable encyclopedias, including print encyclopedias and [[m:List of Wikipedias|other language Wikipedias]], that should exist in the [[Main Page|English Wikipedia]]. The project was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles&oldid=15017069 started] by {{user|Bluemoose}}
*[[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 [[Wikipedia:2007|Jan. 10, 2007]] it was shut down as deteriorated)
*[[October 8]]: [[Wikipedia:Wikipediology|The Institute of Wikipediology]] was initiated. Marked as inactive on November 5,   [[wikipedia:2006|2006]]
*[[October 28]]: [[:category:Wikipedia years|wikipedia calendar]] effort [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:2005&action=history was started] by [[user:Altenmann]]. It was met with unexpected hostility and part of it was even [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Category:Wikipedia days|quickly deleted]].

===Dissolutions===
*[[December 22]]: [[Wikipedia:Friends of Wikipedia]], created in [[Wikipedia:2001|2001]] to list webpages which link to wikipedia, [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Friends of Wikipedia|was deleted]] after outliving its utility.

==Wikipedians==
===Online births===
*[[January 31]] 15:56,  {{admin|Bluemoose}}
*[[March 24]], {{admin|Bhadani}}

===Adminship granted===
*[[September 18]], {{admin|Bhadani}}

===Death and retirement===
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*[[June 21]] 12:08 {{admin|RickK}}, admin (last words: ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:RickK&diff=prev&oldid=16127113 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 [[WP:3RR|three revert rule]] by a fellow administrator. (see [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-06-27/Article blocking|here]])
*[[July 21]]: {{user|Kwantus}} (Hume Cottnam Llewellyn Smith) died
*[[December 12]], {{user|Wiglaf}} ([[May 29]] [[2003]] (anon) [[January 31]], [[2004]] (named) &mdash; [[December 12]], [[2006]]) left wikipedia: ''I just lost the last reason to stay on Wikipedia. Good bye forever, fellow Wikipedians.''

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