Wiki143:2001
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This page is a chronology of events in year 2001 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,Template:Efn because it is hoped that in 50 years or so this page will become a valuable source of scholar research.
Events
- January 15: The first edit to Wikipedia is made to HomePage by Jimbo Wales: "This is the new WikiPedia!"
- January 16, Wikipedia's oldest surviving article and edit is created by account eiffel.demon.co.uk, later known as user:Eiffel
- January 17: User:ScottMoonen becomes the first known named user.[1]
- February 12, The English Wikipedia reaches 1,000 articles.
- March 17, At 01:41 UTC, the first ever edit to a non-English Wikipedia is made to the article ca:Àbac ("Abacus") by the anonymous user 194.158.80.xxx[2].
- May 19, The first data is recorded in the French Wikipedia.
Features
- January 21: The page Wikipedia:Brilliant prose is created by Larry Sanger. It eventually becomes Wikipedia:Featured articles (renamed on January 21, 2004). At present, there are {{Wikipedia:Featured articles}} featured articles, of a total of 2,305,611 pages on the English Wikipedia. Thus, about one in Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". articles is featured.
- November 13: Wikipedia:Friends of Wikipedia is created to list webpages which link to Wikipedia. It was deleted in 2005 after outliving its utility, then restored as an archive.
- December 1: the page originally titled "VANDALISM IN PROGRESS" (all in uppercase) was established; it was moved to Wikipedia:Requests for investigation in 2006. See the history section of that page for more details.
Establishments
| Date | Project | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| January 13 | wikipedia.org is registered[3] | |
| March 16 | German Wikipedia | Article creation began in May. |
| Catalan Wikipedia | For two months, this was the only Wikipedia with articles in a non-English language. | |
| March 23 | French Wikipedia | |
| May 11 | Spanish Wikipedia | |
| Portuguese Wikipedia | ||
| Italian Wikipedia | ||
| Esperanto Wikipedia | ||
| Japanese Wikipedia | ||
| Chinese Wikipedia | ||
| Hebrew Wikipedia | ||
| May 20 | Russian Wikipedia | |
| May 23 | Swedish Wikipedia | |
| June 19 | Dutch Wikipedia | |
| September 26 | Polish Wikipedia | |
| November 16 | Afrikaans Wikipedia | |
| November 26 | Norwegian Wikipedia | Allowed articles in either language standard. |
| December 6 | Basque Wikipedia | The first article was created in November 2003. |
The Simple English Wikipedia was also created in 2001, but the exact date is unknown and the first articles were only created in 2003.
Holidays
- January 15: Wikipedia Day: The Wikipedia project formally begins.
Earliest user accounts
It is difficult to establish start dates in the early days of Wikipedia. Most of the information in monthly format is taken from Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians in order of arrival/2001.
January
| Username | Last activity (if inactive) |
Notes/user comment |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2003 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2009 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | before the move to phase III | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2006 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2002 | And I can prove it : ) |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2017 | Joined up with Wikipedia after the brief GNUPedia episode and its mention on Slashdot. Did some of the first Britannica copying. Pimped wikipedia a bit on Indymedia and some other sites. |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2019 | earliest edits as LarrySanger |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | Likely January 15 (see above) |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2001 | created on January 17, no edits beside own user page |
February
| Username | Last activity (if inactive) |
Notes/user comment |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2003 |
March
| Username | Last activity (if inactive) |
Notes/user comment |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "user". | July 2018 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2001 | now editing as User:Justrob |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2001 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2002 | read about it in the newspaper |
| Script error: No such module "user". | prior to the move to phase III | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2013 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2010 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | can't remember why I came, but noticed it lacked my favourite musicians, so resolved to add them. |
April
| Username | Last activity (if inactive) |
Notes/user comment |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2008 | based on the revision history of Bahrain. Followed over from a comment on slashdot |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | anonymously until May 10, came over from the link on Nupedia. |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | subscribed to wikipedia-l@nupedia.com on Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:12:51 -0700 |
May
| Username | Last activity (if inactive) |
Notes/user comment |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "user". | prior to the move to phase III | based on Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001 |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | based on Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001 |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | based on Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001 |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2008 | based on Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001; inactive since 2008 |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2010 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active |
June
July
| Username | Last activity (if inactive) |
Notes/user comment |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2011 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | July 26, the day of the big Slashdotting |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | July 26, the day of the big Slashdotting |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2003 | July 26, Slashdot effect was my first article! |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | another one from the Slashdotting |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2002 | yet another Slashdotter (though the account is newer) |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2003 | guess which well-known blog appears on my Personal Toolbar |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | thinks he arrived just before slashdotting; now editing under SJK |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2016 | as anonymous 24.4.254.xxx et al. (since first week of July, 2001 |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2001 | not from Slashdot, but from the Kuro5hin article that might have led to it |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2014 | k5 article |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2009 | Due to either the Kuro5hin or Slashdot articles |
August
| Username | Last activity (if inactive) |
Notes/user comment |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2013 | sometime in August |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2002 | it was before school started...; inactive since 2002 |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | on 6th or 7th, not sure which |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2006 | arrived probably during the slashdotting, first contribution early August |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2002 | 2nd wave of slashdotting, 1st or 2nd, I think. |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2002 | the big slashdotting...; |
| Script error: No such module "user". | August 2018 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2015 | from a post by someone (I forget who on usenet (sci.physics)) |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2010 | first contribution listed on 15 August, 2001 |
September
| Username | Last activity (if inactive) |
Notes/user comment |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2011 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2003 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2017 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2006 | after reading the article in the New York Times, September 20 |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | I was here a day or two before JHK... I thought it was earlier than September, but maybe not |
October
| Username | Last activity (if inactive) |
Notes/user comment |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "user". | ? |
Script error: No such module "user". for whatever wikiDB reason the first edit logged as July 26, 2002; PabsP userpage created April 3, 2005. |
| Script error: No such module "user". | June 2018 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | at least that's when I first contributed |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2015 | as an anon, but the account Mark Ryan didn't come for another 3 months, in January 2002. |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2015 | must have been early to middle of 2001 - how it's changed since then |
November
| Username | Last activity (if inactive) |
Notes/user comment |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | November 23rd |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2003 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2002 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2016 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | October 134.132.xxx.xxx postings were me too |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | November 16 |
December
| Username | Last activity (if inactive) |
Notes/user comment |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2004 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2005 | December 12 |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2006 | |
| Script error: No such module "user". | 2011 | probably since beginning of December or end of November 2001 |
| Script error: No such module "user". | active | probably earlier, but I can't tell exactly when I arrived. |
| Eloquence Template:Toolbar | active | 05:47, first logged edit on December 8 |
| SimonP Template:Toolbar | active | 11:20, first logged edit on December 9 |
| Slrubenstein Template:Toolbar | 2012 | 03:33, first logged edit on December 13 |
See also
- 2001
- Wikipedia:Press coverage 2001
- Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2001
- Wikipedia:2001 Top 50 Report
- Wikipedia Milestones
- History of Wikipedia
- Category:Wikipedia news
Notes
References
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