Wikipedia:2010

Events

 * January 1: Bids for Wikimania-2011 open
 * January 2: the Catalan Wikipedia was scored first in the List of Wikipedias by sample of articles, the first one to displace English wikipedia from the top position
 * January 10: The 100,000th article was created in Hebrew Wikipedia
 * February 25: The 500,000th article, Ys, was created in Russian Wikipedia
 * March 2: the "Did You Know" section on the main page presented a fake biography manufactured as a breaching experiment.
 * March 11: The British Museum was the first organization to incorporate a wikipedian as an official member, titled "volunteer Wikipedian in residence"
 * July 9-11: [[Image:Wikimania.svg|32px]] Wikimania 2010, 6th annual Wikimedia Conference, took place in Gdańsk, Poland

Adminship granted

 * Signpost Week of Jan 4: Shubinator (nom).
 * Signpost Week of Jan 11: Olaf Davis (nom).
 * Signpost Week of Jan 18: Rlendog (nom).
 * Signpost Week of Jan 25: Floquenbeam (nom).

Bureaucrats

 * Signpost Week of Jan 25: Useight (nom).
 * Signpost Week of Mar 8: X! (nom).

De-adminship

 * January 14: was emergency-desysopped after CheckUsers confirmed that the user was an incarnation of community-banned Thekohser.
 * January 30: was desysopped by ArbCom for general misconduct (not related to admin rights)
 * March 15: was summarily desysopped for misuse of his administrator tools
 * April 10: was summarily desysopped for misuse of his administrator tools

Death and retirement

 * January 2: (Ricardo Arturo Lafaurie, Jr., formerly User:Danny Lilithborne) died.
 * March 4: Apparently shot by police in self-defense in 2010 Pentagon shooting.