Wikipedia:2003

Events

 * January 6: Support for mathematical formulas in TeX is added.
 * January 22: The English Wikipedia is slashdotted after creating its 100,000th article.
 * October 1: The results of the international logo contest are ratified ; the winning logo is the puzzle sphere by m:User:Paullusmagnus.
 * October 12: The finalised Wikipedia logo, created by user:Nohat from the winning logo, is accepted into the English Wikipedia.
 * October 28: The first "in the fleisch" meeting of Wikipedians occurs in Munich.

Features

 * July 9: Sites that use Wikipedia for content, now Mirrors and forks, is created by user:Mbecker.
 * December 6: User:Mattworld creates a sandbox which, 4 days later, is moved to Template:Stub.
 * December 19: User:MyRedDice, now, imports the concept of Barnstars from MeatBallWiki.

Wikipedias

 * 2003
 * The Vietnamese Wikipedia is created.
 * The first articles are created in the Simple English Wikipedia.
 * The Latvian Wikipedia is created.
 * January 25: WikiProject Music is created by.
 * February 16: The Serbian Wikipedia is created.
 * February 20: The first article is created on the Lithuanian Wikipedia.
 * June 2003: The Romanian Wikipedia is created.
 * July 2003
 * The Arabic Wikipedia is created.
 * The Hindi Wikipedia is created.
 * The Hebrew Wikipedia is created.
 * July 8: The Hungarian Wikipedia is created.
 * August 12: The Malay Wikipedia is created.
 * September 2003: The Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia is created.
 * October 2003: The Slovak Wikipedia is created. It becomes active in the summer of 2004.
 * October 12: The Albanian Wikipedia is created.
 * November 7: The Indonesian Wikipedia is created.
 * November 13: The Alemannic Wikipedia is created.
 * December 2003: The Thai Wikipedia is created.
 * December 5: The Icelandic Wikipedia is created.
 * December 23: The main page of the Romansh Wikipedia is created.

Other

 * June 20: The Wikimedia Foundation is founded.
 * December 8: The Mediation Committee is created by Jimbo Wales

Holidays

 * October 31: Wikipedia:Tim Starling Day: the new parsing algorithm, running twice as fast as the previous one, is implemented by user:Tim Starling.

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 * Source: User:NoSeptember/List of Administrators


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Online births

 * January 10, 06:38 UTC: User:Michael Hardy (user page created)
 * January 28, 02:46: User:Maveric149 (user page created)
 * January 30, 03:41: User:Ahoerstemeier (user page created)
 * February 21, 00:21: User:Angela (user page created, first logged edit)
 * June 11, 20:36: User:Charles Matthews (user page created)
 * July 10, 05:01: User:WhisperToMe (first apparent edit)
 * August 31, 12:02: User:WhisperToMe (user page created)
 * September 8, 02:23: User:Secretlondon (first logged edit)
 * October 14, 05:09: User:Dale Arnett (user page created)
 * October 26, 11:40: User:RedWolf (user page created)
 * October 30, 07:44 (first edit), 11:44 (user page created):
 * November 27: (first logged edit)