Wikipedia:2010
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Events
- January 1: Bids for Wikimania-2011 open
- January 2: the Catalan Wikipedia was scored first in the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Wikipedias_by_sample_of_articles&oldid=1787952 List of Wikipedias by sample of articles], the first one to displace English wikipedia from the top position
- January 10: The 100,000th article was created in Hebrew Wikipedia
- February 25: The 500,000th article, Ys, was created in Russian Wikipedia [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_News&oldid=1869316 Wikimedia News], at Meta
- March 2: the "Did You Know" section on the main page presented a fake biography manufactured as a breaching experiment.Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-03-08/News and notes
- March 11: The British Museum was the first organizationWikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-03-15/News_and_notes to incorporate a wikipedian as an official member, titled "volunteer Wikipedian in residence"[https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1003&L=MCG&T=0&F=&S=&P=60254 An email] from the Museums Computer Group archive
- July 9-11: 32px m:Wikimania 2010, 6th annual Wikimedia Conference, took place in Gdańsk, Poland
Wikipedians
=Adminship granted=
=Bureaucrats=
- Signpost Week of Jan 25: Useight (nom).
- Signpost Week of Mar 8: X! (nom).
=De-adminship=
- January 14: {{admin-abbr|Cool3}} was emergency-desysopped after CheckUsers confirmed that the user was an incarnation of community-banned Thekohser.Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-01-18/Arbitration report
- January 30: {{admin-abbr|Craigy144}} was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case&oldid=340959800#Craigy144temporarily desysopped by ArbCom] for general misconduct (not related to admin rights)
- March 15: {{admin-abbr|Trusilver}} was summarily desysopped for misuse of his administrator toolsWikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-03-15/Arbitration_report#Motions
- April 10: {{admin-abbr|Altenmann}} was [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Altenmann&oldid=355209078 summarily desysopped] for misuse of his administrator tools
=Death and retirement=
- January 2: {{user|JuJube}} (Ricardo Arturo Lafaurie, Jr., formerly User:Danny Lilithborne) died.
- March 4: {{user|JPatrickBedell}} Apparently shot by police in self-defense in 2010 Pentagon shooting.
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