Wikipedia:2003
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Events
- 2003, Vietnamese Wikipedia created
- 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.
- June 20, the Wikimedia Foundation was founded.
- July 2003, Arabic Wikipedia started
- October 13, Albanian Wikipedia started
- October 28, the first "real" meeting of Wikipedians happened in Munich
- November 13, Alemannic Wikipedia (AAlemannisch) created
- December 2003 Thai Wikipedia created
- December 18, Estonian Wikipedia created
Holidays
- October 31, Wikipedia:Tim Starling Day: the new parsing algorithm rtunning twice as fast implemented by user:Tim Starling.
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)
- June 11: User:Charles Matthews (20:36) (user page created)
- August 31: User:WhisperToMe (12:02) (user page created)
- 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.