Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/Achievements

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[edit] Timeline of achievements

The following is a short list of notable accomplishments by the Wikipedia Project Dinosaur team:

• April 22, 2004: Project founded (by User:Fredrik), as "an effort to do something about the current relative lack of content about dinosaurs in Wikipedia."

• October 12, 2005: Abelisaurus appeared on the main page, in the DYK section:

...that Abelisaurus had a lighter skull than other dinosaurs due to large fenestrations behind its eyes?

• October 31, 2005: Alamosaurus appeared on the main page, in the DYK section:

...that Alamosaurus was named after Fort Alamo, Texas and is considered to be the last of the sauropods?

• November 1, 2005: Aegyptosaurus appeared on the main page, in the DYK section:

...that the only surviving fossils of Aegyptosaurus were destroyed in a 1944 bombing raid on Munich, Germany during World War II?

• December 5, 2005: Dinosaur selected for the Article Improvement Drive.

• December 18, 2005: Article Dinosaur becomes a Featured Article.

• January 1, 2006: Article Dinosaur was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article.

• January 5, 2006: Article Ampelosaurus was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page, in the DYK section.

• January 6, 2006: Article Aliwalia was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page, in the DYK section.

• March 17, 2006: Article Efraasia was featured on Wikipedia's main page in the Did you know? column.

• April 23, 2006: Project membership reaches 25 members for the first time.

• May 25, 2006: The list of dinosaurs and List of missing dinosaur articles on Wikipedia lists are all blue for the first time.

• May 27, 2006: Article Dracorex was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page, in the DYK section.

• May 30, 2006: Article Psittacosaurus becomes a Featured Article.

• June 10, 2006: Article Europasaurus was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page, in the DYK section:

...that a new "dwarf" dinosaur, a sauropod named Europasaurus (pictured), was recently discovered in Northern Germany?

• June 23, 2006: Article Albertosaurus becomes a Featured Article.

• June 29, 2006: Article Velociraptor becomes a Featured Article.

• July 12, 2006: Article Velociraptor is featured on Wikipedia's Main Page.

• July 18, 2006: Article Lufengosaurus was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page, in the DYK section:

...that the dinosaur Lufengosaurus, whose remains were found in China, was the first dinosaur to appear on a commemorative postage stamp, in 1958?

• July 23, 2006: Articles Diplodocus and Ankylosaurus become good articles.

• July 24, 2006: Article Tyrannosaurus becomes a Featured Article.

• August 22, 2006: Project membership reaches 50 users.

• September 11, 2006: List of dinosaurs becomes a featured list.

• September 12, 2006: Article Tyrannosaurus is featured on Wikipedia's Main Page.

• November 10, 2006: Article Stegosaurus becomes a Featured Article.

• November 27, 2006: Article Stegosaurus is featured on Wikipedia's Main Page.

• December 12, 2006: Article Sacisaurus was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page, in the DYK section:

...that Sacisaurus was named for a one-legged Brazilian elf, as the first skeleton was found missing a leg?

(it's probably a dinosauromorph, so it counts)