Wikipedia:2006

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1 Events
2 Establishments
3 Wikipedian status changes
4 Online death and retirement
5 See also
6 References

[edit] Events

January 2006 : all wikipedias exceed 1, 000, 000, 000 words
January 4: The English language version of Wikipedia arrived at the 900,000 article mark.
January 10: Wikipedia® became a registered trademark of Wikimedia Foundation.
January 23: Jimbo Wales announced the appointment of a new Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee, increasing the committee size to 15.
January 30: Wikipedia registered editors were made to require a non-blank password
February 6: the Wikipedia:Office Actions policy installed.
February 28: The millionth user account was registered for the English language edition.
March 2006, administratorship on the Swedish Wikipedia becomes only temporary. Admins are reelected once a year. So far, only Meta-Wikipedia has something similar.
March 1, 23.09 GMT: Wikipedia produces the 1,000,000-th English article, "Jordanhill railway station". See also m:Wikimedia press releases/English Wikipedia hits milestone 1 million articles. Wikipedia talk:1m-PR-en lists those who were going for it.
March 19: the front page of the English language Wikipedia changed its appearance.
On March 28, CBS Evening News airs a special report about Wikipedia.
On April 4, the first CD selection in English was published as a free download see Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download [1]
May 11, It was anounced that Category:Living people reached 90,000 biography articles.
On June 8, the English language Wikipedia passed the 1,000 featured article mark.[2]
August 4-6: the second Wikimania was held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
August 16, the 100,000-th article, ru:Амальрик, Леонид Алексеевич, was created in Russian wikipedia.
September 24, User:Eloquence was declared the winner of the elections to wikimedia m:Board of Trustees
September 26, User:Eloquence joins the Wikimedia m:Board of Trustees
October 17 a pilot project for Citizendium, an intended "expert-friendly" fork of Wikipedia, was launched.
November 4, a Wikipedia meetup occurred in Philadelphia
November 9, winners of the 3rd Danny's contest (a writing competition) announced.
November 12 the Chinese Wikipedia produces the 100,000-th new article
November 23 the German Wikipedia produces the 500,000-th new article, thus becoming the second national wikipedia reaching this milestone
November 24
- the English language Wikipedia produces the 1,500,000-th new article: Kanab Ambersnail
- a Wikipedia meetup occurred in Singapore
November 27, the French Wikipedia produces the 400,000-th new article
November 29, the Russian Wikipedia wins the Russian national Internet award, Runet Prize in the Science and Education category (news release, in Russian).
December 2006:
- The Japanese Wikipedia won the Web of the Year 2006 from Yahoo! Japan Internet Guide.
- user:Mikkalai created 1,000 articles
December 4, Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006
December 8:
- The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was expanded from 5 to 7. Following a resolution, the Board added Kat Walsh (Mindspillage), Oscar van Dillen (Oscar), and Jan-Bart de Vreede (Jan-Bart), who will take outgoing member Tim Shell's seat.
- Wikimedia Foundation released to public its first ever financial audit, covering years 2004-2006.
December 9
- a Wikipedia meetup occurred in New York
- Google announced on its Official Blog^[1] that Google Earth will now make Wikipedia articles available while looking at geographic information. Information from Wikipedia will be identified by the Wikipedia globe.
December 26/December 27: edit count in wikipedia rolled over 100,000,000 edits since July 2002 according to the counter seen in Special:Statistics. This was noticed at least twice, see here and here. This rolling up and down of the counter is explained by deletion of articles. `'mikka 23:57, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Establishments

April 18: Wikipedia:Reward board was established as a place where users who want specific tasks done can offer monetary awards. The first award was offered for pictures for "Body mass index". Initially it was named "Now Hiring" and immediately became a matter of heated controversy and revert war.