Wikipedia:2003
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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[http://marc.info/?l=wikipedia-l&m=106504163720763&w=2 "Logo ratification and its variants"] by Erik Moeller; 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.Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people#Stubs
- December 19: User:MyRedDice, now {{user|MartinHarper}}, 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 {{user|TUF-KAT}}.
- 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 [http://rm.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pagina_principala&oldid=1 main page] of the Romansh Wikipedia is created.
=Other=
- June 20: The Wikimedia Foundation is founded.
- December 8: The Wikipedia:Mediation Committee is [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Mediation_committee&oldid=1905067 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
- January 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|Jasonr}} (given administrator access for technical reasons)
- February 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|Eloquence}}
- {{admin-abbr|Infrogmation}}
- March 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|Fred Bauder}}
- {{admin-abbr|LittleDan}}
- {{admin-abbr|JohnOwens}}
- {{admin-abbr|MyRedDice}}
- {{admin-abbr|Oliver Pereira}}
- {{admin-abbr|Sannse}}
- {{admin-abbr|Sheldon Rampton}}
- {{admin-abbr|Tim Starling}}
- {{admin-abbr|Zoe}}
- March 10: {{admin-abbr|Cordyph}}
- April 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|Ams80}}
- {{admin-abbr|Cprompt}}
- {{admin-abbr|Montrealais}}
- {{admin-abbr|Notheruser}}
- {{admin-abbr|Tannin}}
- May 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|Dante Alighieri}}
- {{admin-abbr|Evercat}}
- {{admin-abbr|Hephaestos}}
- {{admin-abbr|Jimfbleak}}
- {{admin-abbr|Kingturtle}}
- {{admin-abbr|Minesweeper}}
- {{admin-abbr|Slrubenstein}}
- {{admin-abbr|Someone else}}
- {{admin-abbr|The Anome}}
- May 12: {{admin-abbr|172}}
- May 22: {{admin-abbr|Kils}}
- June 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|Angela}}
- {{admin-abbr|Anthere}}
- {{admin-abbr|Bdesham}}
- {{admin-abbr|Cimon avaro}}
- {{admin-abbr|Cgs}}
- {{admin-abbr|Cyp}}
- {{admin-abbr|Deb}}
- {{admin-abbr|G-Man}}
- {{admin-abbr|Goatasaur}}
- {{admin-abbr|Jdforrester}}
- {{admin-abbr|Jtdirl}}
- {{admin-abbr|Ktsquare}}
- {{admin-abbr|Mbecker}}
- {{admin-abbr|Menchi}}
- {{admin-abbr|Olivier}}
- {{admin-abbr|Phil Bordelon}}
- {{admin-abbr|Poor Yorick}}
- {{admin-abbr|Quercusrobur}}
- {{admin-abbr|Ram-Man}}
- {{admin-abbr|Smith03}}
- {{admin-abbr|Theresa knott}}
- June 1: {{admin-abbr|Kosebamse}}
- June 20: {{admin-abbr|Ilyanep}}
- June 30: {{admin-abbr|PMA}}
- July 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|AntonioMartin}}
- {{admin-abbr|CYD}}
- {{admin-abbr|Delirium}}
- {{admin-abbr|Dwheeler}}
- {{admin-abbr|Fantasy}}
- {{admin-abbr|Jiang}}
- {{admin-abbr|Jimregan}}
- {{admin-abbr|Marumari}}
- {{admin-abbr|Merphant}}
- {{admin-abbr|RickK}}
- {{admin-abbr|Zanimum}}
- {{admin-abbr|Zippy}}
- August 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|Ahoerstemeier}}
- {{admin-abbr|Chadloder}}
- {{admin-abbr|Cyan}}
- {{admin-abbr|J.J.}}
- {{admin-abbr|Mintguy}}
- {{admin-abbr|Pcb21}}
- {{admin-abbr|Schneelocke}}
- {{admin-abbr|Tompagenet}}
- August 5: {{admin-abbr|Stevertigo}}
- September 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|Alex756}}
- {{admin-abbr|Dgrant}}
- {{admin-abbr|Dysprosia}}
- {{admin-abbr|Heron}}
- {{admin-abbr|Jnc}}
- {{admin-abbr|John Kenney}}
- {{admin-abbr|Jwrosenzweig}}
- {{admin-abbr|Llywrch}}
- {{admin-abbr|Marshman}}
- {{admin-abbr|Modemac}}
- {{admin-abbr|Nanobug}}
- {{admin-abbr|Patrick}}
- {{admin-abbr|Paul A}}
- {{admin-abbr|Vancouverguy}}
- {{admin-abbr|Viajero}}
- October 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|Arwel Parry}}
- {{admin-abbr|Daniel Quinlan}}
- {{admin-abbr|Efghij}}
- {{admin-abbr|Evil saltine}}
- {{admin-abbr|Fuzheado}}
- {{admin-abbr|Jake Nelson}}
- {{admin-abbr|Snoyes}}
- {{admin-abbr|Stan Shebs}}
- {{admin-abbr|Sugarfish}}
- October 3: {{admin-abbr|Ark30inf}}
- November 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|Christopher Mahan}}
- {{admin-abbr|DavidLevinson}}
- {{admin-abbr|Dori}}
- {{admin-abbr|Ihcoyc}}
- {{admin-abbr|Morwen}}
- {{admin-abbr|Muriel Gottrop}}
- {{admin-abbr|Pratyeka}}
- {{admin-abbr|Secretlondon}}
- {{admin-abbr|Tristanb}}
- December 2003:
- {{admin-abbr|Andres}}
- {{admin-abbr|Bcorr}}
- {{admin-abbr|Dieter Simon}}
- {{admin-abbr|Docu}}
- {{admin-abbr|Khym Chanur}}
- {{admin-abbr|Finlay McWalter}}
- {{admin-abbr|Michael Hardy}}
- {{admin-abbr|Pakaran}}
- {{admin-abbr|Raul654}}
- {{admin-abbr|SimonP}}
- {{admin-abbr|Timwi}}
- {{admin-abbr|Ugen64}}
- {{admin-abbr|WhisperToMe}}
- December 6: {{admin-abbr|168...}}
=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 {{section link|Wikipedia:Moving a page|Moving over a redirect}})
- 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): {{admin-abbr|Altenmann}}
- November 27: {{admin-abbr|Humus sapiens}} (first logged edit)
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