Wikipedia:2003

Events

• January 2003, support for mathematical formulas in TeX was added.
• January 22, the English Wikipedia was slashdotted after having reached the 100,000 article milestone.
• October 28, the first "real" meeting of Wikipedians happened in Munich

Establishments

• 2003
  • Vietnamese Wikipedia created
  • Simple English Wikipedia created
  • Latvian Wikipedia created
• December 19: MyRedDice (talk · contribs) imports the concept of wikipedia:Barnstars from MeatBallWiki
• February 16, Serbian Wikipedia created
• February 20, Lithuanian Wikipedia creates the first article
• June 2003, Romanian Wikipedia created
• June 20, the Wikimedia Foundation was founded.
• July 2003
  • Arabic Wikipedia started
  • Hindi Wikipedia started
  • Hebrew Wikipedia started
• July 8, Hungarian Wikipedia started
• August 12, Malay Wikipedia created
• September 2003, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia created
• October 2003, Slovak Wikipedia created (becoming active in the summer of 2004)
• October 12, Albanian Wikipedia started
• November 7, Indonesian Wikipedia created
• November 13, Alemannic Wikipedia (Alemannisch) created
• December 2003, Thai Wikipedia created
• December 5, Icelandic Wikipedia created
• December 18, Estonian Wikipedia created

Holidays

• October 31, Wikipedia:Tim Starling Day: the new parsing algorithm running twice as fast implemented by user:Tim Starling.

Wikipedian status changes

Adminship granted

Source: User:NoSeptember/List of Administrators

• January 2003:
  • Jasonr (t · c · b · p · d · m · r) administrator access for technical reasons
• February 2003:
  • Eloquence (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Infrogmation (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• March 2003:
  • Fred Bauder (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • LittleDan (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • JohnOwens (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • MyRedDice (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Oliver Pereira (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Sannse (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Sheldon Rampton (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Tim Starling (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Zoe (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• March 10Cordyph (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• April 2003:
  • Ams80 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Cprompt (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Montrealais (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Notheruser (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Tannin (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• May 2003:
  • Dante Alighieri (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Evercat (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Hephaestos (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Jimfbleak (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Kingturtle (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Minesweeper (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Slrubenstein (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Someone else (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • The Anome (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• May 12 172 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• May 22 Kils (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• June 2003:
  • Angela (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Anthere (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Bdesham (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Cimon avaro (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Cgs (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Cyp (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Deb (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • G-Man (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Goatasaur (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Ilyanep (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Jdforrester (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Jtdirl (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Ktsquare (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Mbecker (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Menchi (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Olivier (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Phil Bordelon (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Poor Yorick (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Quercusrobur (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Ram-Man (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Smith03 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Theresa knott (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• June 1 Kosebamse (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• June 30 PMA (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• July 2003:
  • AntonioMartin (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • CYD (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Delirium (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Dwheeler (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Fantasy (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Jiang (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Jimregan (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Marumari (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Merphant (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • RickK (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Zanimum (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Zippy (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• August 2003:
  • Ahoerstemeier (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Chadloder (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Cyan (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • J.J. (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Mintguy (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Pcb21 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Schneelocke (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Tompagenet (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• August 5 Stevertigo (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• September 2003:
  • Alex756 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Dgrant (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Dysprosia (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Heron (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Jnc (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • John Kenney (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Jwrosenzweig (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Llywrch (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Marshman (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Modemac (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Nanobug (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Patrick (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Paul A (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Vancouverguy (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Viajero (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• October 2003:
  • Arwel Parry (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Daniel Quinlan (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Efghij (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Evil saltine (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Fuzheado (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Jake Nelson (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Snoyes (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Stan Shebs (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Sugarfish (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• October 3 Ark30inf (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• November 2003:
  • Christopher Mahan (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • DavidLevinson (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Dori (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Ihcoyc (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Morwen (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Muriel Gottrop (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Pratyeka (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Secretlondon (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Tristanb (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• December 2003:
  • Andres (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Bcorr (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Dieter Simon (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Docu (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Khym Chanur (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Finlay McWalter (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Michael Hardy (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Pakaran (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Raul654 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • SimonP (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Timwi (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • Ugen64 (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
  • WhisperToMe (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)
• December 6 168... (t · c · b · p · d · m · r)

Online births

• January 10: User:Michael Hardy (06:38) (user page created)
• January 28: User:Maveric149 (02:46) (user page created)
• January 30: User:Ahoerstemeier (03:41) (user page created)
• February 21: User:Angela (00:21) (user page created, first logged edit)
• June 11: User:Charles Matthews (20:36) (user page created)
• August 31: User:WhisperToMe (12:02) (user page created)
• September 8:User:Secretlondon (02:23) (first logged edit)
• October 14: User:Dale Arnett (05:09) (user page created)
• October 26: User:RedWolf (11:40) (user page created)
• October 30: User:Mikkalai (11:44, user page created, 07:44:38, first edit)

See also

• 2003
• Wikipedia:Press coverage 2003
• Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians/2003
• Wikipedia:2003 Top 50 Report
• Wikipedia Milestones
• History of Wikipedia
• Category:Wikipedia news