Wiki143:2003

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to navigation Jump to search

<templatestyles src="Template:TOC_right/styles.css" />

Template:Wp-years-top

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.

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

Adminship granted

Source: User:NoSeptember/List of Administrators

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)

Template:Wp-years

Retrieved from "http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Wiki143:2003&oldid=2119858"

Pages with script errors