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October 2002

October 12, 2002

Early in the morning EST, Wikipedia starts spitting out random pages instead of the pages users ask for. People wonder if Wikipedia was hacked or if it was just some bug than ran uncorrected for many hours. The latter.

October 11, 2002

In your user preferences, you can now set an option that will mark links to stub articles (a "stub detector"). The default setting is 0, which turns it off; setting it to another value ("x") will cause links to articles with less than "x" characters to be displayed in a different color, or with a "!" following the link, depending on your other preferences.

October 10, 2002

If you look in your special pages list you may notice a new Maintenance page which has some tools to list double redirects, pages that link to themselves, etc. There are also some new search options, for those who want to search in Talk:, User:, and Wikipedia: pages.

Additionally, the Meta-Wikipedia, for discussion and planning about the project and all your rants and raves that don't fit in the encyclopedia, has been upgraded to the new software.

October 8, 2002

The Danish-language Wikipedia this morning joined the English, German, and Dutch wikis in being moved over to Wikipedia's new server (at *.wikipedia.org) and upgraded to the new custom Wikipedia wiki software with a completely localized user interface. The Japanese wiki is additionally on the new software but isn't yet fully localized, and French, Polish, and Esperanto localizations are in testing. The other Non-English Wikipedias remain on our old server (*.wikipedia.com, running UseMod wiki software) for the time being, but will continue to be moved and upgraded as fast as our volunteer development team can do it.

October 5, 2002

The Dutch-language Wikipedia has now been converted to the new phase III Wikipedia software. The new server is at http://nl.wikipedia.org/ ; the old UseMod-based version will continue to be available at http://nl.wikipedia.com/ for a few days to make sure all pages were converted successfully, then will become an alias for the new server.

Anybody who's interested, please help importing the interlanguage links!

October 3, 2002

Wikipedia received its 10,000,000th hit (since the Phase III Software was installed in July) today, according to Special:Statistics. This works out to an average of about 135,000 hits per day (around 1.5 per second, around the clock).

September 2002

September 30, 2002

At some point today, the Wikipedia reached 50,000 entries, according to the front page counter. Of course, many of these are short stubs, rather than full encyclopedia articles. Based on article size statistics, and comparisions with other encyclopedias, it seems likely that we there are now between 25,000 and 35,000 basic encylopedia articles in the Wikipedia database.

September 26, 2002

The Wikipedia:Embassy is opening up to help keep the non-English Wikipedias involved in the overall planning and maintenance of the project. Become a Wikipediambassador and make sure your language's community isn't left out!

September 21, 2002

The much-belated import of pre-January 2002 article edit histories from the old software has been done at last! (See caveats.)

There are now new graphs available for your interest on the pages Wikipedia:Traffic as well as Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia, and Wikipedia:Awareness statistics.

September 18, 2002

Thanks to a brilliant idea of Andre Engels you can now find out who the most active Wikipedians are. See Wikipedia:Most active Wikipedians, find yourself and boost your ego;-)

September 13, 2002

On the day September 12, 2002, the English-language Wikipedia served 310639 hits, believed to be a record level of traffic for Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Traffic for details.

September 6, 2002

The server's clock is now set to worldwide standard UTC. Please visit your Preferences and make sure your time zone offset is set to something sensible (either 0 to show standard time, or your preferred local time).

September 5, 2002

In the period August 31 - September 5 2002, the estimated article growth rate appears to have been an amazing 209 articles/day.

September 3, 2002

The English-language Wikipedia is now receiving in excess of 200,000 hits/day on many days. See Wikipedia:Traffic for details.

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