Wikipedia:Announcements June 2005

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[edit] June 28

• The English Wikipedia has been upgraded to use MediaWiki 1.5beta1. Many thanks to the developers for all of the hard work they did to make the transition as smooth as possible! A detailed list of changes in this version of MediaWiki is available.

[edit] June 26

• Yahoo! has ordered 23 servers for the Foundation, according to Jimmy Wales on the mailing list this morning.
• The process of upgrading the Wikipedia site to use MediaWiki 1.5 has begun. This is being done one wiki at a time, and each wiki will be locked whilst it is converted. Amongst other benefits, this process will finally convert the English-language Wikipedia to UTF-8, allowing much better multilingual support.

[edit] June 23

• A collaboration between KDE and the Wikimedia Foundation to integrate Wikipedia content and web services into the KDE desktop was made public at Jimbo's keynote speech [1] at the Karlsruhe LinuxTag in Germany.

[edit] June 19

• The English Wikipedia now has 600,000 articles! The 600,000th article to be added was (probably) Poona Bayabao, Lanao del Sur, by TheCoffee at 00:20 UTC on June 19th.

[edit] June 15

• New statistics charts are available, showing how the new Amsterdam cluster is now taking much of the load off the Paris and Florida clusters. Note that because the Amsterdam cluster serves a limited geographical area, its traffic shows a much greater daily variation than that of the Florida cluster. (Chart: Amsterdam cluster data is in green)

[edit] June 8

• The Amsterdam cluster is live, and serving users in Europe. (pictures)
• The new database servers have arrived in the Florida data center

[edit] June 7

• The Florida server cluster move has been completed.
• The main Wikimedia server cluster in Florida will be down for relocation to another building beginning at 0700 UTC (3am US EDT, 0900 CEST). The downtime is not expected to last beyond 2100 UTC (5pm EDT, 2300 CEST). This downtime will affect all Wikimedia projects. [2]

[edit] June 4

• Eleven new Wikimedia servers are in the process of being deployed in Amsterdam. When this is live, this will be Wikimedia's third data center, in addition to the Florida and Paris clusters.