Wikipedia:2012

Events

 * January 18: 24h blackout of Wikipedia as it joins the protests against SOPA and PIPA
 * January 24: Pavel Durov, the founder of Vkontakte announced the donation of $1M to Wikipedia


 * July 12-15 [[Image:Wikimania.svg|32px]]Wikimania 2012, 8th annual Wikimedia Conference at George Washington University.
 * September 18: Gibraltarpedia scandal erupts
 * November: German court ruling on the problem of businesses using Wikipedia for marketing purposes
 * November 26 - December 9: Estonian-Ukrainian Cooperation Week The project is to fill in the missing topics from the opposite side.

Dissolutions

 * July 23: mediation Cabal dissolved

Death and retirement

 * January: Larry Morse
 * February 12: Howard Zimmerman, a Wikipedia pioneer; registered on 12 December 2001
 * March, Steven Rubenstein
 * March 13: Ben Yates
 * April 26: Claude A. R. Kagan
 * June 4, Philip Chalmers
 * November 25, Francis K. J. Dechert