Wikipedia:Milestones

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January 2002

January 3, 2002

Larry Sanger has been invited to speak on January 16 to the Stanford University Computer Systems Laboratory as part of their colloquium series [1]. Larry's topic is, probably, going to be what Wikipedia is and why it matters.

Wikipedia will probably do a press release announcing our first anniversary (January 15), breaking the 20,000 article barrier, and Larry's Stanford talk of the 16th (which will be webcast and locally televised). We hope the announcement of these events will create some nice publicity; it would be nice if we had to call out The Wikipedia Militia (which we can also call "The Wikipedia Welcoming Committee").

2001

December 26, 2001

AxelBoldt has written a number of Bookmarklets that make it easier to search Wikipedia.

December 25, 2001

An AP story by Anick Jesdanun prominently mentions "Wales' Wikipedia encyclopedia." Merry Christmas, Jimbo!

December 20, 2001

National Public Radio ("future tense") this morning featured an interview with Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the Wiki concept.

Wikipedia was mentioned, along with its URL. A real audio version of the interview is available.

Quotes from Ward:

• "The Wiki concept is much closer to the way the web was initially intended than static web pages."

• "I'd much rather have a community than a shopping mall."

Please see this page for a draft of a new statement to replace the current contents of neutral point of view. Your positive input and edits are encouraged!

December 18, 2001

The free (GNU) word processor Abiword comes with a wikipedia plugin.

Other worthwhile plugins for Wikipedia authors are:

• Dictionary plugin

• babelfish plugin

• freetranslate plugin

December 14, 2001

Wikipedia statistics/Size of Wikipedia: 19,000 articles announced.

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