Wiki143:2005

Events

February 21: All Wikimedia Florida servers went offline. Full recovery required 24 hours. Lessons were learned.
March 18, the 500,000-th article was created: Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union.
August 4-8: 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 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.

March 5, Kelson of fr:wp introduced the concept of language icons to tag exterlal links (cf. April 17)
April 17, Zantastik imported from fr:wp to en:wp the concept of language icons (cf. March 5)
May 8, Wikipedia:mediation Cabal started (dissolved in July 2012)
July 16, the English Wikipedia began the practice of including the day's featured picture on the main page.
October 3: This week two new criteria for speedy deletions were added: blatant copyvio and Jimbo's suggestion about orphaned fair-use images
December 5 Wikipedia user registration became obligatory for the creation of a new article, as a consequence of the Seigenthaler controversy.
December 20: Template:Tl was introduced by Easyas12c to unify language icon templates (cf. April 17)
December 22, Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy was implemented

2005 Neapolitan Wikipedia created
January 2005, Uncyclopedia, a parody of wikipedia was launched "as a response to the demand in BJAODN page for a place to put their nonsense."
February 2005, Armenian Wikipedia (Armenian (Հայերեն)) created
February 5, the first Wikipedia:Wikiportal, since renamed to Portal:Biology was created.
June 11, WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles is a WikiProject was formed to better organize the creation of articles that exist in other notable encyclopedias, including print encyclopedias and other language Wikipedias, that should exist in the English Wikipedia. The project was started by Script error: No such module "user".
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 Jan. 10, 2007 it was shut down as deteriorated)
October 8: The Institute of Wikipediology was initiated. Marked as inactive on November 5, 2006
October 28: wikipedia calendar effort was started by user:Altenmann. It was met with unexpected hostility and part of it was even quickly deleted.

December 22: Wikipedia:Friends of Wikipedia, created in 2001 to list webpages which link to wikipedia, was deleted after outliving its utility.

June 21 12:08 Script error: No such module "UserLinks"., admin (last words: 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 three revert rule by a fellow administrator. (see here)
July 21: Script error: No such module "user". (Hume Cottnam Llewellyn Smith) died
December 12, Script error: No such module "user". (May 29 2003 (anon) January 31, 2004 (named) — December 12, 2006) left wikipedia: I just lost the last reason to stay on Wikipedia. Good bye forever, fellow Wikipedians.