Wikipedia:Announcements May 2004

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Contents 1 May 30, 2004 2 May 29, 2004 3 May 27, 2004 4 May 26, 2004 5 May 21, 2004 6 May 17, 2004 7 May 13, 2004 8 May 12, 2004 9 May 11, 2004 10 May 5, 2004 11 May 4, 2004 12 May 3 - 4, 2004

[edit] May 30, 2004

• Voting has begun in the Elections for Wikimedia Board Trustees (FAQ).

[edit] May 29, 2004

• The English Wikipedia has been upgraded to MediaWiki v1.3. Please report bugs to m:MediaWiki 1.3 comments and bug reports.
• The English Wikipedia reaches 275,000 articles (What's the 275,000th?).

[edit] May 27, 2004

• The 2U server has been delivered and three of the new servers will go online today. This is expected to alleviate the problems with the extra traffic from Yahoo. See this post on Wikitech-l for full details.

[edit] May 26, 2004

• Four new servers installed.
• Yahoo! has approved our datafeed, which means that they are going to start sending us "a ton of traffic".

[edit] May 21, 2004

• Wikipedia and its sister projects will be upgraded to the next major version of the MediaWiki software, which powers all of Wikimedia's hosted projects, resulting in slight downtime for each upgrade. If all goes according to plan, the upgrade of all projects will take around one day. A test version of this new release (1.3) is currently available at test.wikipedia.org. Software bugs relating to the upgrade can be reported at m:MediaWiki 1.3 comments and bug reports. See meta:MediaWiki roadmap for further info on this and future upgrade cycles and plans.

[edit] May 17, 2004

• The English Wikipedia has reached 4 million edits since record keeping began. This is one million edits since March 14 64 days ago (16,000 edits per day, 11 per minute). This is faster than the previous 99 days to get from 2 million to 3 million. Along with this, the number of edits per article is approaching 12, and is currently at 11.9 for each article. Hopefully, this means that the articles are improving.

[edit] May 13, 2004

• Wikipedia's daily traffic rank was 426, breaking the top-500 mark for the first time on Alexa.com. Other record stats from Alexa: One week average is 582 and Reach per million is at 2,200.

[edit] May 12, 2004

• Wikipedia has been awarded with the Webby Award in the category Community. [1]
• The server was down for maintenance from about 02:00 to 03:00 UTC. See hardware status and this mailing list post for details.
• There has been a poll on Talk:Georgia regarding moving the various Georgias around. Please go and vote.
• In recent days the articles on string theory have been dramatically improved. User:Charles Matthews has learnt that the content has been provided by an internationally-renowned Harvard physicist. The new content is also featured in the science section of the "news for nerds" site slashdot [2].

[edit] May 11, 2004

• WikiProject Gastropods is up and running. This huge project is an offshoot from the WikiProject : Tree of Life. Contributions and pictures from new collaborators are most welcome. JoJan 08:33, 11 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] May 5, 2004

• The 100 Worst Britons now all have articles, most of above stub-length.

• Help out by adding images to Wikipedia:list of images, which has recently started; it immediately comes under fire by some editors as being highly redundant, and hopefully a discussion of need for the project emerges from it.

[edit] May 4, 2004

• Wikipedia has been awarded with Prix Ars Electronica (Golden Nica) in the category Digital Communities. [3]

[edit] May 3 - 4, 2004

• Further hardware upgrades are taking place. See meta:Wikimedia hardware status. Wikipedia traffic is substantially down as several parts of the cluster are running on backup systems or below full capacity.