Wikipedia:2004

This page is a chronology of events in year 2004 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,^[a] because it is hoped that in 50 years or so this page will become a valuable source of scholar research.

Events

January 2004: Wikipedia reaches 200,000 articles in English and 450,000 articles in all languages.
January 30: The first article is written on the Ukrainian Wikipedia.
February 25: Wikipedia reaches 500,000 articles in 50 languages.
April 20: The English Wikipedia reaches 250,000 articles.
May 12: Wikipedia wins the Annual Webby Award in the "Community" category.^[1]
June 2: Wikipedia is blocked for the first time in Mainland China.
July 7: The English Wikipedia reaches 300,000 articles.
June 23: Wikipedia wins a Golden Nica for Digital Communities of the annual Prix Ars Electronica contest. See m:Golden Nica Awards 2004.
September 9: Guillaume Blanchard, known as Aoineko (see his user pages in the Japanese and French Wikipedias) is awarded the Web Creation Award as the founder of the Japanese Wikipedia by the Japan Advertisers Association.
September 20: Wikipedia reaches 1,000,000 articles [1] in over 105 languages.
November 2: The winners of the 1st Danny's contest (Best New Article) are announced.
November 20: The article count of the English Wikipedia reaches 400,000.
November 28: The first article is created on the Yiddish Wikipedia.

Features

January 26: Tim Starling (talk · contribs) introduces the concept of barnstar-free zones.
February 22: The first Did You Know is posted, featuring the article "Pencil sharpener" which was created by User:Raul654 on February 15, 2004.
May 14: The first picture of the day is posted.
May 30: A categorization scheme is introduced in Wikipedia.
June 11: The Wikistress gauge is created after being suggested by User:Raul654.
July 23: WikiProject "Military history" recognizes the deficiency of "NewPages" for tracking new articles and creates the first manually-operated list of new articles by topic, Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/New articles, followed by Category:Wikipedia new articles.

Organizations

Establishments

2004
- The Luxembourgish Wikipedia is created.
- The Ido Wikipedia is created.
- The Kurdish Wikipedia is created.
- The Georgian Wikipedia is created.
January 2004
- The Urdu Wikipedia is created.
- The Persian Wikipedia is created.
- The Galician Wikipedia is created.
February 4: The Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates created. It is discontinued in 2007.
February 18
- The Community Main Page (now known as Wikipedia:Community Portal) is launched.
- The user category Wikipedia:Bureaucrats is established. The first bureaucrats are Angela, Eloquence, Secretlondon, Stan Shebs and TUF-KAT.
March 2004: The Yiddish Wikipedia is founded.
May 27: The Aromanian Wikipedia is created.
June 2004 The Klingon Wikipedia is created. It is locked in August 2005.
July 31: The Nynorsk-specific Norwegian Wikipedia is launched.
August 2004:
- The Divehi Wikipedia is created.
- Wapedia, a website created to deliver Wikipedia to mobile phones and PDAs is launched.
August 12: The Belarusian Wikipedia is created.
October 4: The Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia is created.
October 7, 21:44: Wikipedia:Wikifun, then known as Wikihunt, starts with the question "Find out the three countries involved in the Battle of Bunei".
October 27: Wikipedia:Department of Fun is established.
December 2004: The Azerbaijani Wikipedia is created.

Dissolutions

Holidays

June 1: Brion Vibber Day commemorates the great works of Brion Vibber, Wikipedia's lead developer.

Online births

January 3, 22:33: User:Lysy (first edit)
February 13, 04:16: User:Everyking (user page created)
February 20, 23:07: User:Jdavidb (first registered edit, user page created)
March 3, 17:43: User:BillyH (first logged-in edit)
July 21, 10:44: User:Dbachmann (first logged-in edit)
August 20, 02:34: User:Paul August (first edit, user page created)
October 14, 03:20: User:Grutness (user page created)
December 7, 07:03: User:Ghirlandajo (first logged-in edit)

Notes

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While formally Wikipedia:Verifiability and others of Wikipedia's content-controlling policies do not apply outside the main namespace, they must be strictly followed here, for the sake of scholarly discipline:
- The listed event and its date must be mentioned in a wikilinked or externally linked reference. It is advised to consider an external link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page rather than a wikilink, if this page is linked for a critical but volatile piece of information.
- Credible sources must be used only. Within Wikipedia, Wikipedia Signpost is one of them.
- Trivial events must be avoided:
  - Random mentioning of Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.
  - Routine Wikipedia activities, such as a promotion of an article to featured state, are generally not listed here, unless such events generate significant buzz outside its normal working scope.

References

^ "Webby Awards 2004"

[1] While formally Wikipedia:Verifiability and others of Wikipedia's content-controlling policies do not apply outside the main namespace, they must be strictly followed here, for the sake of scholarly discipline:
The listed event and its date must be mentioned in a wikilinked or externally linked reference. It is advised to consider an external link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page rather than a wikilink, if this page is linked for a critical but volatile piece of information.

Credible sources must be used only. Within Wikipedia, Wikipedia Signpost is one of them.

Trivial events must be avoided:
Random mentioning of Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.

Routine Wikipedia activities, such as a promotion of an article to featured state, are generally not listed here, unless such events generate significant buzz outside its normal working scope.

[2] The listed event and its date must be mentioned in a wikilinked or externally linked reference. It is advised to consider an external link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page rather than a wikilink, if this page is linked for a critical but volatile piece of information.

[3] Credible sources must be used only. Within Wikipedia, Wikipedia Signpost is one of them.

[4] Trivial events must be avoided:
Random mentioning of Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.

Routine Wikipedia activities, such as a promotion of an article to featured state, are generally not listed here, unless such events generate significant buzz outside its normal working scope.

[5] Random mentioning of Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.

[6] Routine Wikipedia activities, such as a promotion of an article to featured state, are generally not listed here, unless such events generate significant buzz outside its normal working scope.

[2] "Webby Awards 2004"

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