Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Milestones

This page lists the milestones of WikiProject Football. It is hoped that the following will be recorded here for posterity –


 * Project, sub-project, task force and child project creation dates
 * Featured article milestones – 1st, 10th, 20th etc
 * Featured list milestones – 1st, 10th, 20th etc
 * Featured content milestones – x appeared on main page, total of featured content = 10, 20,
 * Good article milestones
 * Tagged article milestones – 500 articles, 1000, 5000, 10000, 15000 etc
 * User milestones – 1st, 50th, 100th, 150th etc

Project milestones

 * 9 June 2005 – Project created by User:Johan Elisson (original page), Johan had created Portal:Association football six days earlier.
 * 7 July 2005 – IFK Göteborg becomes the project's first featured article.
 * 20 September 2005 – IFK Göteborg becomes the project's first featured article to appear on Wikipedia's Main page.
 * 3 February 2006 – WikiProject Football's second child project WikiProject Non-league football is created by User:Cantthinkofagoodname. The first was WikiProject A-League which pre-dated WP:FOOTBALL, being created by User:Albinomonkey on December 20 2004 (original page).
 * 4 February 2006 – User:Kaiser23 becomes the project's 50th member.
 * 19 February 2006 – Swedish football champions becomes the project's first featured list.
 * 28 April 2006 – WikiProject A-League creates the Player project taskforce (original page).
 * 16 May 2006 – Agony of Doha becomes the 30th football related Did you know? to appear on Wikipedia's main page.
 * 21 May 2006 – User:Cs-wolves becomes the project's 100th member.
 * 9 August 2006 – Portal:A-League was created by User:Daniel (original page).
 * 29 August 2006 – the assessment department was added to the project. Over 500 articles were supported at this stage.
 * 31 August 2006 – User:Balerion becomes the project's 150th member.
 * 13 September 2006 – Sheffield Wednesday F.C. becomes the project's tenth featured article.
 * 31 September 2006 – the project passes the 1,000 article milestone.
 * 12 October 2006 – Premier League becomes the project's fifth featured article to appear on the Main page.
 * 27 October 2006 – WikiProject A-League expands scope to become WikiProject Football (soccer) in Australia (original page).
 * 12 November 2006 – History of Bristol Rovers F.C. is the 40th football related DYK on the main page.
 * 31 November 2006 – the project passes the 5,000 article milestone.
 * 14 December 2006 – User:Charruss2491 becomes the project's 200th member.
 * 28 January 2007 – List of Manchester United F.C. players becomes the project's tenth featured list.
 * 13 March 2007 – User:Zanoni becomes the project's 250th member.
 * 6 April 2007 – 7 football related articles were included in the Version 0.5 DVD release.
 * 17 April 2007 – Francis Lee is the 50th football related DYK on the main page.
 * 17 May 2007 – 18 football related articles were placed on the 2007 Wikipedia Selection for schools
 * 30 May 2007 – User:Sebisthlm becomes the project's 300th member.
 * 5 June 2007 – Itzik Zohar is the 60th football related DYK on the main page.
 * 13 June 2007 – History of Arsenal F.C. (1886–1966) becomes the project's twentieth featured article.
 * 17 June 2007 – Norwich City F.C. becomes the project's tenth featured article to appear on the Main page.
 * 31 June 2007 – the project passes the 10,000 article milestone.
 * 23 July 2007 – Eddy Brown is the 70th football related DYK on the main page.
 * 15 September 2007 – User:Heitz669 becomes the project's 350th member.
 * 24 September 2007 – List of York City F.C. managers becomes the project's twentieth featured list at 15:56 UTC, being promoted one minute before the twenty-first featured list Ipswich Town F.C. seasons.
 * 29 September 2007 – Harry Newbould is the 80th football related DYK on the main page.
 * 31 September 2007 – the project passes the 15,000 article milestone.
 * 16 October 2007 – List of Gillingham F.C. players (a featured list) becomes the project's 50th article to achieve featured status. There were 27 featured articles and 23 featured lists on this date.
 * 12 November 2007 – Gillingham F.C. seasons becomes the project's 30th featured list, Denis Law is the first article to be de-featured.
 * 14 December 2007 – Gary Willard is the 90th football related DYK on the main page.
 * 5 January 2008 – Image:U20-WorldCup2007-Okotie-Onka edit2.jpg becomes the project's first Featured picture.
 * 13 January 2008 – the project passes the 20,000 article milestone. There were 29 featured articles and 38 featured lists on this date.
 * 24 January 2008 – Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. becomes the project's 30th featured article.
 * 25 January 2008 – Gillingham F.C. becomes the project's first featured topic and Leeds United A.F.C. seasons becomes the project's 40th featured list.
 * 31 January 2008 – FC Mretebi Tbilisi is the 100th football related DYK on the main page.
 * 12 February 2008 – User:GarethHolteDavies becomes the project's 400th member.
 * 21 February 2008 – Game 39 is the 110th football related DYK on the main page.
 * 2 March 2008 – Ipswich Town F.C. becomes the project's second featured topic.
 * 10 March 2008 – York City F.C. becomes the project's third featured topic.
 * 12 March 2008 – Statistics provided by User:Sjorford suggested that there are 65,838 articles in the 8008 categories in the Category:Football (soccer) hierarchy on this date, this accounted for 2.89% of the 2,277,708 articles on Wikipedia as a whole. Of these, only 24,396 (37%) were tagged with football according to the latest WP1.0 statistics.
 * 18 March 2008 – the project passes the 25,000 article milestone.
 * 20 March 2008 – Portal:English football becomes the project's first featured portal.
 * 14 September 2008 – 911 articles were selected for inclusion on Version 0.7 out of a possible 53,311 for the main project with more from subprojects and taskforces (see 0.7/0.7index/Football).
 * 11 December 2008 – Taskforce on Association Football variants created

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