Wikipedia:Milestones
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August 2002
August 10, 2002
A company has made a fork from Wikipedia at the URL [http://the-fact-factory.com
http://the-fact-factory.com]. This site is loaded with advertisements and stagnant.
They use an old dump of Wikipedia source but there are also user pages
transferred. You might want to remove or modify your user's page at the site.
August 10, 2002
David A. Wheeler has just released html2wikipedia, a tool that translates HTML into Wikipedia's Wiki format. This may help in extracting existing material: translate it into HTML (if it isn't already), use html2wikipedia, and then massage the results. Obviously, please make sure that you don't just do a data dump - you still need to ensure that the copyright is compatible, that the text has a neutral point of view, and so on.
August 4, 2002
The Mycroft Project has a new search plugin available for Mozilla-based browsers, including Netscape 6, for searching the English Wikipedia. Visit http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html and search for "Wikipedia".
July 2002
July 21, 2002
Wikipedia is already running the new software on the new server (IP: 130.94.122.197).
July 13, 2002
Wikipedia is going to change software and hardware pretty soon, probably within a week. Please test the new system at http://beta.wikipedia.com and submit bug reports and feature requests. Edits you make on that site won't affect the real Wikipedia database. Discussion of the new system takes place on the mailing lists.
May 2002
May 17, 2002
Not the quickest reaction time, but at some point in the last week or so, using the most conservative count available (from the Statistics page), Wikipedia passed 33,333 articles. This puts us over one third of the way to the original goal of 100,000 articles!
May 9, 2002
After much work by a number of contributors on the Wikitech-L list, Wikipedia responsiveness is back to reasonable levels. There are continued concerted efforts to hammer out bugs and improve speed.
May 4, 2002
Wikipedia now has a Google PageRank of 7/10.
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