This page is a chronology of events in year 2006 directly related to Wikipedia and Wikipedians, both within Wikipedia and in the whole wide world. Wikipedia events and events in sister projects ( Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc.) are listed as long as they are related to Wikipedia.
Additions to this page must follow certain rules, [a] because it is hoped that in 50 years or so this page will become a valuable source of scholar research.
- January 2006 : all wikipedias exceed 1, 000, 000, 000 words
- January 4: The English language version of Wikipedia arrived at the 900,000 article mark.
- January 10: Wikipedia® became a registered trademark of Wikimedia Foundation.
- January 23: Jimbo Wales announced the appointment of a new Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee, increasing the committee size to 15.
- 17 February: MIT computer science professor Carl Hewitt banned from editing articles of his expertise for undue and persistent self-promotion. In about 2 years the case was reported by Guardian Unlimited. [1]
- February 27, a milistone for the WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles: the last of the 14,707 missing Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition articles was added to wikipedia
- February 28: The millionth user account was registered for the English language edition.
- March 1, 23.09 GMT: Wikipedia produces the 1,000,000-th English article, " Jordanhill railway station". See also m:Wikimedia press releases/English Wikipedia hits milestone 1 million articles. Wikipedia talk:1m-PR-en lists those who were going for it.
- On March 28, CBS Evening News airs a special report about Wikipedia.
- On April 4, the first CD selection in English was published as a free download see Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download [1]
- April 19: An archetypal uninformed but relentless wikipedia user Randy in Boise was introduced to public
- May 11, It was announced that Category:Living people reached 90,000 biography articles.
- On June 8, the English language Wikipedia passed the 1,000 featured article mark. [2]
- August 4- 6: the second Wikimania was held in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
- August 16, the 100,000-th article, ru:Амальрик, Леонид Алексеевич, was created in Russian wikipedia.
- September 24, User:Eloquence was declared the winner of the elections to wikimedia m:Board of Trustees
- September 26, User:Eloquence joins the Wikimedia m:Board of Trustees
- October 17 a pilot project for Citizendium, an intended "expert-friendly" fork of Wikipedia, was launched.
- November 4, a Wikipedia meetup occurred in Philadelphia
- November 9, winners of the 3rd Danny's contest (a writing competition) announced.
- November 12 the Chinese Wikipedia produces the 100,000-th new article
- November 23 the German Wikipedia produces the 500,000-th new article, thus becoming the second national wikipedia reaching this milestone
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November 24
- the English language Wikipedia produces the 1,500,000-th new article: Kanab Ambersnail
- a Wikipedia meetup occurred in Singapore
- November 27, the French Wikipedia produces the 400,000-th new article
- November 29, the Russian Wikipedia wins the Russian national Internet award, Runet Prize in the Science and Education category ( news release, in Russian).
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December 2006:
- The Japanese Wikipedia won the Web of the Year 2006 from Yahoo! Japan Internet Guide.
- December 4, Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006
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December 8:
- The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was expanded from 5 to 7. Following a resolution, the Board added Kat Walsh ( Mindspillage), Oscar van Dillen ( Oscar), and Jan-Bart de Vreede ( Jan-Bart), who will take outgoing member Tim Shell's seat.
- Wikimedia Foundation released to public its first ever financial audit, covering years 2004-2006.
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December 9
- a Wikipedia meetup occurred in New York
- Google announced on its Official Blog [2] that Google Earth will now make Wikipedia articles available while looking at geographic information. Information from Wikipedia will be identified by the Wikipedia globe.
- December 26/ December 27: edit count in wikipedia rolled over 100,000,000 edits since July 2002 according to the counter seen in Special:Statistics. This was noticed at least twice, see here and here. This rolling up and down of the counter is explained by deletion of articles.
- January 30: Wikipedia registered editors were made to require a non-blank password
- February 6: the Wikipedia:Office Actions policy installed.
- March 2006, administratorship on the Swedish Wikipedia becomes only temporary. Admins are reelected once a year. So far, only Meta-Wikipedia has something similar.
- March 19: the front page of the English language Wikipedia changed its appearance.
- April 1: The featured article seen on the Main Page (" Spoo") is a factually accurate, yet unusual article, starting a new April Fools' Day tradition on wikipedia (following a 2005 suggestion).
- 16 October: Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly/Episode1 podcast was released
- January 12: wikiProject Community Justice (renamed into Concordia) was initiated by Computerjoe ( talk · contribs)
- January 23: a position of ArbCom Clerk was introduced to assist the Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee with procedural aspects of its work.
- February 12: Wikipedia:WikiProject New York State routes started [3]
- April 18: Wikipedia:Reward board was established as a place where users who want specific tasks done can offer monetary awards. The first award was offered for pictures for " Body mass index". Initially it was named "Now Hiring" and immediately became a matter of heated controversy and revert war.
- August 14: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council was initiated by Kirill Lokshin to coordinate WikiProject efforts
- October 4: Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly was initiated for delivery of wikipedia-related podcasts
- November 22: Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors was initiated to coordinate copyediting efforts. Deactivated on June 22, 2008. Its replacement, Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles Needing Copy Edit, was initiated on July 22.
- November 5 The Institute of Wikipediology (est. 10:24, October 8, 2005 JCarriker ( talk · contribs)) marked as inactive
- February 22 23:40, Ars Scriptor ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), (first edit)
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February 2006:
- Freestylefrappe ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- Karmafist ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- April 2006: Guanaco ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), second time; cannot re-apply anymore [4]
- June 2006: NSLE ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- August 2006: Dbiv ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- September 2006: Everyking ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- October 2006: Marudubshinki ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
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December 2006:
- MONGO ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- Seabhcan ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- February 8: Caroline Thompson ( talk · contribs) died
- September 17 Neilm ( talk · contribs) died
- September 24 12:08 Hephaestos ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), admin (last words: Just delete every image I've ever uploaded here. Every last one of them. Do a bot search and just get rid of them. Screw this project.)
- November 8 Ikkyu2 ( talk · contribs) (Last words:My reasons are sound and will remain private.). The user hasn't been involved in any wikidrama and just decided to disappear
- November 30 John Reid ( talk · contribs), the author of the Rolling Pi left wikipedia after bein abused by Philwelch (who relinquished his admin rights and was subject of RFA). Last words: A quote of Crazy Rhythm
- December 1 17:51, Bluemoose ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), admin (last words: Had enough of this, all the good people seem to be leaving....I am changing my password to something I can't remember, so this will definitely be my last edit.)
- December 11 06:48, Ars Scriptor ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), admin (last words: I am leaving Wikipedia immediately and permanently.)
- 2006
- Wikipedia:Press coverage 2006
- Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2006
- Wikipedia Milestones
- History of Wikipedia
- Category:Wikipedia news
-
^ While formally
Wikipedia:Verifiability and others of Wikipedia's content-controlling policies do not apply outside the
main namespace, they must be strictly followed here, for the sake of scholarly discipline:
- The listed event and its date must be mentioned in a wikilinked or externally linked reference. It is advised to consider an external link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page rather than a wikilink, if this page is linked for a critical but volatile piece of information.
- Credible sources must be used only. Within Wikipedia, Wikipedia Signpost is one of them.
- Trivial events must be avoided:
- Random mentioning of Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.
- Routine Wikipedia activities, such as a promotion of an article to featured state, are generally not listed here, unless such events generate significant buzz outside its normal working scope.
- ^ Kleeman, Jenny (2007-12-09). "Wikipedia ban for disruptive professor". Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ "Opening my eyes to a whole new world" @ google blog
- ^ WikiProject_report @ Signpost
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-15/2006 in review
This page is a chronology of events in year 2006 directly related to Wikipedia and Wikipedians, both within Wikipedia and in the whole wide world. Wikipedia events and events in sister projects ( Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc.) are listed as long as they are related to Wikipedia.
Additions to this page must follow certain rules, [a] because it is hoped that in 50 years or so this page will become a valuable source of scholar research.
- January 2006 : all wikipedias exceed 1, 000, 000, 000 words
- January 4: The English language version of Wikipedia arrived at the 900,000 article mark.
- January 10: Wikipedia® became a registered trademark of Wikimedia Foundation.
- January 23: Jimbo Wales announced the appointment of a new Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee, increasing the committee size to 15.
- 17 February: MIT computer science professor Carl Hewitt banned from editing articles of his expertise for undue and persistent self-promotion. In about 2 years the case was reported by Guardian Unlimited. [1]
- February 27, a milistone for the WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles: the last of the 14,707 missing Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition articles was added to wikipedia
- February 28: The millionth user account was registered for the English language edition.
- March 1, 23.09 GMT: Wikipedia produces the 1,000,000-th English article, " Jordanhill railway station". See also m:Wikimedia press releases/English Wikipedia hits milestone 1 million articles. Wikipedia talk:1m-PR-en lists those who were going for it.
- On March 28, CBS Evening News airs a special report about Wikipedia.
- On April 4, the first CD selection in English was published as a free download see Wikipedia:Wikipedia-CD/Download [1]
- April 19: An archetypal uninformed but relentless wikipedia user Randy in Boise was introduced to public
- May 11, It was announced that Category:Living people reached 90,000 biography articles.
- On June 8, the English language Wikipedia passed the 1,000 featured article mark. [2]
- August 4- 6: the second Wikimania was held in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
- August 16, the 100,000-th article, ru:Амальрик, Леонид Алексеевич, was created in Russian wikipedia.
- September 24, User:Eloquence was declared the winner of the elections to wikimedia m:Board of Trustees
- September 26, User:Eloquence joins the Wikimedia m:Board of Trustees
- October 17 a pilot project for Citizendium, an intended "expert-friendly" fork of Wikipedia, was launched.
- November 4, a Wikipedia meetup occurred in Philadelphia
- November 9, winners of the 3rd Danny's contest (a writing competition) announced.
- November 12 the Chinese Wikipedia produces the 100,000-th new article
- November 23 the German Wikipedia produces the 500,000-th new article, thus becoming the second national wikipedia reaching this milestone
-
November 24
- the English language Wikipedia produces the 1,500,000-th new article: Kanab Ambersnail
- a Wikipedia meetup occurred in Singapore
- November 27, the French Wikipedia produces the 400,000-th new article
- November 29, the Russian Wikipedia wins the Russian national Internet award, Runet Prize in the Science and Education category ( news release, in Russian).
-
December 2006:
- The Japanese Wikipedia won the Web of the Year 2006 from Yahoo! Japan Internet Guide.
- December 4, Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006
-
December 8:
- The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was expanded from 5 to 7. Following a resolution, the Board added Kat Walsh ( Mindspillage), Oscar van Dillen ( Oscar), and Jan-Bart de Vreede ( Jan-Bart), who will take outgoing member Tim Shell's seat.
- Wikimedia Foundation released to public its first ever financial audit, covering years 2004-2006.
-
December 9
- a Wikipedia meetup occurred in New York
- Google announced on its Official Blog [2] that Google Earth will now make Wikipedia articles available while looking at geographic information. Information from Wikipedia will be identified by the Wikipedia globe.
- December 26/ December 27: edit count in wikipedia rolled over 100,000,000 edits since July 2002 according to the counter seen in Special:Statistics. This was noticed at least twice, see here and here. This rolling up and down of the counter is explained by deletion of articles.
- January 30: Wikipedia registered editors were made to require a non-blank password
- February 6: the Wikipedia:Office Actions policy installed.
- March 2006, administratorship on the Swedish Wikipedia becomes only temporary. Admins are reelected once a year. So far, only Meta-Wikipedia has something similar.
- March 19: the front page of the English language Wikipedia changed its appearance.
- April 1: The featured article seen on the Main Page (" Spoo") is a factually accurate, yet unusual article, starting a new April Fools' Day tradition on wikipedia (following a 2005 suggestion).
- 16 October: Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly/Episode1 podcast was released
- January 12: wikiProject Community Justice (renamed into Concordia) was initiated by Computerjoe ( talk · contribs)
- January 23: a position of ArbCom Clerk was introduced to assist the Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee with procedural aspects of its work.
- February 12: Wikipedia:WikiProject New York State routes started [3]
- April 18: Wikipedia:Reward board was established as a place where users who want specific tasks done can offer monetary awards. The first award was offered for pictures for " Body mass index". Initially it was named "Now Hiring" and immediately became a matter of heated controversy and revert war.
- August 14: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council was initiated by Kirill Lokshin to coordinate WikiProject efforts
- October 4: Wikipedia:WikiProject WikipediaWeekly was initiated for delivery of wikipedia-related podcasts
- November 22: Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors was initiated to coordinate copyediting efforts. Deactivated on June 22, 2008. Its replacement, Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles Needing Copy Edit, was initiated on July 22.
- November 5 The Institute of Wikipediology (est. 10:24, October 8, 2005 JCarriker ( talk · contribs)) marked as inactive
- February 22 23:40, Ars Scriptor ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), (first edit)
-
February 2006:
- Freestylefrappe ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- Karmafist ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- April 2006: Guanaco ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), second time; cannot re-apply anymore [4]
- June 2006: NSLE ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- August 2006: Dbiv ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- September 2006: Everyking ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- October 2006: Marudubshinki ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
-
December 2006:
- MONGO ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- Seabhcan ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) [4]
- February 8: Caroline Thompson ( talk · contribs) died
- September 17 Neilm ( talk · contribs) died
- September 24 12:08 Hephaestos ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), admin (last words: Just delete every image I've ever uploaded here. Every last one of them. Do a bot search and just get rid of them. Screw this project.)
- November 8 Ikkyu2 ( talk · contribs) (Last words:My reasons are sound and will remain private.). The user hasn't been involved in any wikidrama and just decided to disappear
- November 30 John Reid ( talk · contribs), the author of the Rolling Pi left wikipedia after bein abused by Philwelch (who relinquished his admin rights and was subject of RFA). Last words: A quote of Crazy Rhythm
- December 1 17:51, Bluemoose ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), admin (last words: Had enough of this, all the good people seem to be leaving....I am changing my password to something I can't remember, so this will definitely be my last edit.)
- December 11 06:48, Ars Scriptor ( talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA), admin (last words: I am leaving Wikipedia immediately and permanently.)
- 2006
- Wikipedia:Press coverage 2006
- Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2006
- Wikipedia Milestones
- History of Wikipedia
- Category:Wikipedia news
-
^ While formally
Wikipedia:Verifiability and others of Wikipedia's content-controlling policies do not apply outside the
main namespace, they must be strictly followed here, for the sake of scholarly discipline:
- The listed event and its date must be mentioned in a wikilinked or externally linked reference. It is advised to consider an external link to a specific version of a Wikipedia page rather than a wikilink, if this page is linked for a critical but volatile piece of information.
- Credible sources must be used only. Within Wikipedia, Wikipedia Signpost is one of them.
- Trivial events must be avoided:
- Random mentioning of Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia:Wikipedia in the media.
- Routine Wikipedia activities, such as a promotion of an article to featured state, are generally not listed here, unless such events generate significant buzz outside its normal working scope.
- ^ Kleeman, Jenny (2007-12-09). "Wikipedia ban for disruptive professor". Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved 2007-12-10.
- ^ "Opening my eyes to a whole new world" @ google blog
- ^ WikiProject_report @ Signpost
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-15/2006 in review