Wikipedia:Announcements January 2006

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Announcements
2006: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec
2005: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec
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2003: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec
2002: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec
2001: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec

Contents 1 January 31 2 January 28 3 January 21 4 January 15 5 January 14 6 January 10 7 January 9 8 January 8 9 January 4 10 January 3 11 January 1

[edit] January 31

• Wikipedia's amazing traffic spike continues, as its Alexa traffic rank hits a record weekly rank of 17; the daily rank reaches a record 15. Remarkably, the servers still seem to be holding up under the load.

[edit] January 28

• Wikipedia's one day Alexa traffic rank momentarily hits a record high of 16, before falling back to 18 again. The weekly rank is now also 18.

[edit] January 21

• Wikipedia's one day Alexa traffic rank hits a record high of 18.

[edit] January 15

• Today is Wikipedia Day, and Wikipedia is now five years old!
• Wikipedia's one week average on Alexa hits 19.

[edit] January 14

• Wikipedia's three-month average on Alexa hits 31.

[edit] January 10

• Wikimedia Foundation is granted registration for the Wikipedia mark at the United States Patent and Trademark Office authorizing use of the registration mark, Wikipedia®.

[edit] January 9

• Wikipedia's one day Alexa traffic rank hits a record high of 19.

[edit] January 8

• Wikipedia's one week average on Alexa hits 20.

[edit] January 4

• The English Wikipedia reaches 900,000 articles, at 20:43, 4 January 2006 (UTC).
• Google links a search for "Louis Braille birthday" from a Braille version of its logo: the top hit for this is the Wikipedia article Louis Braille.

[edit] January 3

• The English Wikipedia reaches 3 million total pages.
• The 3-month average rank goes up to 32, and the daily traffic rank enters the top 20 for the first time, reaching #20.

[edit] January 1

• 2005, and the month of December 2005, were both record-breaking for Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia more than doubled its body of articles in 2005, to almost 900,000, just over 50,000 of these were added in December alone - the first time we've grown by 50,000 articles in a single month. The Wikipedia project as a whole added almost 1.8 million new articles in 201 languages, 200,000 of them in December. With the exception of September, when the Italians and Poles went on a bot-rampage, December was the first time that the project gained 200,000 new articles.