This page is a chronology of events in year
2009 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.
May 28: After long proceedings,
Arbcom issued a massive restriction, including numerous bans against editors affiliated with
Scientology. This was the first intentional ban of a whole organization for alleged pushing their agenda on wikipedia. [6]
June 15:
Wikimedia to relicense its content as Massive Multiauthor Collaborations under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license, in addition to the current GFDL license
June 22: Beginning of "Wiki Loves Art" event in Netherlands (van 22 juni tot 1 september 2009): volunteers will visit Dutch museums to take photographs of art objects. The photos will be published online with a creative commons (CC) license. The project is run by Creative Commons Netherlands and Wikimedia Netherlands, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum Night Foundation and the Netherlands Institute for Heritage.[7][8]
OpenMoko launched the
WikiReader, a dedicated reader device with an offline copy of the entire English Wikipedia (without images) stored on a chip.[13]
See
Wikipedia:Former_administrators for all other currently former admins, who were desysopped voluntarily (those who may have been resysopped are no longer listed there).
^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.
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.
This page is a chronology of events in year
2009 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.
May 28: After long proceedings,
Arbcom issued a massive restriction, including numerous bans against editors affiliated with
Scientology. This was the first intentional ban of a whole organization for alleged pushing their agenda on wikipedia. [6]
June 15:
Wikimedia to relicense its content as Massive Multiauthor Collaborations under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license, in addition to the current GFDL license
June 22: Beginning of "Wiki Loves Art" event in Netherlands (van 22 juni tot 1 september 2009): volunteers will visit Dutch museums to take photographs of art objects. The photos will be published online with a creative commons (CC) license. The project is run by Creative Commons Netherlands and Wikimedia Netherlands, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum Night Foundation and the Netherlands Institute for Heritage.[7][8]
OpenMoko launched the
WikiReader, a dedicated reader device with an offline copy of the entire English Wikipedia (without images) stored on a chip.[13]
See
Wikipedia:Former_administrators for all other currently former admins, who were desysopped voluntarily (those who may have been resysopped are no longer listed there).
^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.
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.