Wikipedia:2001

Events

 * January 15: The first edit to Wikipedia is made to HomePage by : "This is the new WikiPedia!"
 * January 16, Wikipedia's oldest surviving article and edit is created by account eiffel.demon.co.uk, later known as user:Eiffel
 * January 17: User:ScottMoonen becomes the first known named user.
 * February 12, The English Wikipedia reaches 1,000 articles.
 * March 17, At 01:41 UTC, the first ever edit to a non-English Wikipedia is made to the article ca:Àbac ("Abacus") by the anonymous user 194.158.80.xxx.
 * May 19, The first data is recorded in the French Wikipedia.

Features

 * November 2001: Friends of Wikipedia is created to list webpages which link to Wikipedia. It was deleted in 2005 after outliving its utility, then restored as an archive.
 * December 11: The page Brilliant prose is created by Larry Sanger. It eventually becomes Featured articles (renamed on January 21, 2004). At present, there are  featured articles, of a total of pages on the English Wikipedia. Thus, about one in 0 articles is featured.

Establishments
The Simple English Wikipedia was also created in 2001, but the exact date is unknown and the first articles were only created in 2003.

Holidays

 * January 15: Wikipedia Day: The Wikipedia project formally begins.

Earliest user accounts
It is difficult to establish start dates in the early days of Wikipedia. Most of the information in monthly format is taken from List of Wikipedians in order of arrival/2001.