Wikipedia:2002
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[edit] Events
- February 2002, most participants of the Spanish Wikipedia broke away to establish the Enciclopedia Libre.
- March 1, Larry Sanger resigned from Wikipedia
- August 2002, the URL of Wikipedia was changed from wikipedia.com to wikipedia.org after Jimbo Wales announced that he would never run commercial advertisements on Wikipedia.
- September 2002, Finnish Wikipedia reaches 1000 articles
- October 2002, Derek Ramsey ("Ram-Man") started to use a bot to add a large number of articles about United States towns.
- November 7, the first main page in Russian Wikipedia created
[edit] Establishments
- 2002
- Korean Wikipedia created
- Finnish Wikipedia created
- Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress established as early as in 2002 (renamed to Wikipedia:Requests for investigation in 2006) but due to cut and pastemoves and archiving of these early days, establishing the exact date requires a more thorough reseacrh
- January 2002, Italian Wikipedia created
- March 2002, Slovenian Wikipedia created
- May 2002, Czech Wikipedia created
- September 2002, Japanese Wikipedia created.
- October 2002, Chinese Wikipedia created.
- December 2002
- the sister project Wiktionary was created.
- Turkish Wikipedia created
- December 1, Greek Wikipedia created
[edit] Holidays
- January 25, Magnus Manske Day: Wikipedia switched to the mediawiki software.
[edit] Online births
- February 7: User:Bryan Derksen (05:13) (user page created)
- February 25
- user:Stan Shebs (19:51) (first logged edit)
- user:TUF-KAT (19:43) (first logged edit)
- April 21: User:SimonP (23:25) (user page created)
- September 3: User:Olivier (16:49) (user page created)
- September 8: User:Ram-Man (23:07) (user page created)
- December 20: user:Zanimum (20:38) (first logged edit)
- December 23: User:172 (account created)
