Wikipedia:2023 Recap
This page is a chronology of events in year 2023 Recap directly related to Wikipedia and Wikipedians, both within Wikipedia and in the whole wide world. Wikipedia events and events in sister projects (Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc.) are listed as long as they are related to Wikipedia.
Additions to this page must follow certain rules,[a] because it is hoped that in 50 years or so this page will become a valuable source of scholar research.
Events
- August 16–19:
m:Wikimania 2023, 18th annual Wikimedia Conference, in Singapore
Notable Wikipedian status changes
Adminship
De-adminship
Indef blocks and bans
- July 25: Vladimir Medeyko (User:Drbug), the former head of Wikimedia Russia and founder of the Russian government-approved Ruwiki fork, has been globally banned by WMF. Medeyko had previously been blocked indefinitely on the Russian Wikipedia,[1] following a discussion at the Russian Wikipedia's Administrators' Noticeboard, as well as on Commons (July 3), where the reason given was "Long-term abuse: creating a Wikipedia fork which includes stolen content from Commons as well"[2]
Death and retirement
- Spinningspark (talk · contribs)
- Mr impossible (talk · contribs)
- DGG (talk · contribs)
- Thibbs (talk · contribs)
- Deror avi (talk · contribs)
- Inoslav Bešker (talk · contribs)
- Kipala (talk · contribs)
- Doncram (talk · contribs)
- Pmccawley (talk · contribs)
- Eagleash (talk · contribs)
See also
- 2023 Recap
- Wikipedia:Press coverage 2023 Recap
- Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2023 Recap
- Wikipedia:2023 Recap Top 50 Report
- Wikipedia Milestones
- History of Wikipedia
- Category:Wikipedia news
Notes
- ^ While formally Wikipedia:Verifiability and others of Wikipedia's content-controlling policies do not apply outside the main namespace, they must be strictly followed here, for the sake of scholarly discipline:
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