Wikipedia:2012
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Events
- January 18: 24h blackout of Wikipedia as it joins the protests against SOPA and PIPA [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/wikipedia-blackout-coming-jan-18-says-co-founder-jimmy-wales/2012/01/16/gIQAh2Ke3P_blog.html "Wikipedia blackout coming Wednesday, says co-founder Jimmy Wales"]
- January 24: Pavel Durov, the founder of Vkontakte announced the donation of $1M to Wikipedia [http://rt.com/news/prime-time/russia-social-network-wikipedia-601/ "Russia’s most popular social network donates $1 million to Wikipedia"]
- July 12-15 32pxm:Wikimania 2012, 8th annual Wikimedia Conference at George Washington University.
- September 18: Gibraltarpedia scandal erupts[http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/ "Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia"], cnetUK chapter rocked by Gibraltar scandal, Wikipedia Signpost
- November: German court ruling on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposesCourt ruling complicates the paid-editing debate, Wikipedia Signpost
- November 26 - December 9: Estonian-Ukrainian Cooperation Week:uk:Вікіпедія:Проект:Тематичний тиждень/Тиждень українсько-естонської співпраці:et:Vikipeedia:Eesti-Ukraina koostöönädalThe project is to fill in the missing topics from the opposite side.
Dissolutions
- July 23: Wikipedia:mediation Cabal [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal&direction=next&oldid=500522618 dissolved]
Death and retirement
- January: Larry Morse ({{user|LarryMorseDCOhio}})Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians
- February 12: Howard Zimmerman ({{user|Hezimmerman}}), a Wikipedia pioneer; registered on 12 December 2001
- March, Steven Rubenstein ({{user|Slrubenstein}})
- March 13: Ben Yates ({{user|Tlogmer}})
- April 26: Claude A. R. Kagan ({{user|Claude A. R. Kagan}})
- June 4, Philip Chalmers ({{user|Philcha}})
- November 25, Francis K. J. Dechert ({{user|Franamax}})
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