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Software status
The English Wikipedia is now using MediaWiki v1.3. Please report bugs to m:MediaWiki 1.3 comments and bug reports.
Most MediaWiki features have been reenabled including full text search and Special: pages to generate lists of orphans, short pages, and long pages. Special: pages for most wanted and most popular pages are still not working. For a full status report see: Wikipedia:Software status.
Hardware status
The addition of new servers has improved system capacity, and system performance seems noticeably improved. See meta:Wikimedia hardware status.
October 1
September 29
- Jimbo announces that he will be in Urbana-Champaign from 22-24 October 2004, but also in the Chicago area. He is keenly desirous of having a Chicagoland Wikipedia meetup on Sunday, October 24th, in the afternoon, around 4PM and lasting possibly into the night depending on how many people arrive. Please sign up at Chicago Meetup! (And please repost this announcement in any appropriate place where it might receive attention from people in that area.)
September 23
- Wikipedia's one-day Alexa traffic rank spikes to a record high of [1] (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=30d&size=large&compare_sites=&url=wikipedia.org#graph) 349.
September 22
- Wikipedia's one-day Alexa traffic rank today [2] (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=30d&size=large&compare_sites=&url=wikipedia.org#graph) is 409. Wikipedia's 1-week moving average traffic rank has been consistently better than 500 since the start of September.
September 20
August 27
August 20
- Eight new servers being installed. Some downtime possible.
August 14
August 12–13
- Contingency plans are being made for Hurricane Charley, which was expected to make landfall near Tampa, Florida on August 13 but later veered east. Wikimedia's hosting center is prepared for the storm, and downtime is now less likely than earlier predicted. For offsite updates on Wikipedia's status, see the Wikipedia Status page at OpenFacts (http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Wikipedia_Status).
August 5
- The Arbitration Committee election is now open. To vote, go to Special:ArbComVote. Voting will continue through Friday, August 13.
July 31
July 27
- Elections have been scheduled for two open positions on the Arbitration Committee. Candidates should present their candidate statements before midnight UTC on Monday, August 2, 2004. The election will start on Wednesday, August 4, and run through Friday, August 13. Anyone who has been a registered user for 3 months is eligible to vote.
July 26
- Wikipedia's 1-day Alexa traffic rank (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=wikipedia.org) has spiked upwards to a record #389, breaking the #400 barrier for the first time, only three days after surpassing the #500 mark.
July 25
July 24
July 23
- Wikipedia's 1-day Alexa traffic rank (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=wikipedia.org) has steadily risen to a record 471, breaking the #500 barrier for the first time.
July 21
- The Luxembourgish Wikipedia (http://lb.wikipedia.org) is finally online!
- After weeks of poor performance, Wikipedia's 1-day Alexa traffic rank (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=wikipedia.org) has steadily risen to a record 503. (The 1-week average figure is 570, which does not set a new record).
July 15
July 14
July 11
- The site was switched today from using Suda as the main database server to using Ariel. It should be faster now. Suda used six 10,000 RPM SCSI disks and 2GB of RAM for the database. Ariel is using six 15,000 RPM disks and 7GB of RAM.
July 10
July 7
- English Wikipedia reaches 300,000 articles. Rene Gagnon is the reported 300,000th article. Congratulations! The milestone has been announced on Slashdot [3] (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/07/0740232); Wikipedia is so far holding up under the load, as are the linked articles, Crushing by elephant and GNU/Linux naming controversy. The story includes a request for more MediaWiki developers, linked to m:How to become a MediaWiki hacker.
- English Wikipedia reaches 5,000,000 edits. This is one million edits since May 17, 51 days ago. The previous million edits took 64 days, so the current rate of almost 20,000 edits a day is a record. As well, the number of edits per article is at 12.6 and still increasing, so edits are increasing faster than new articles.
July 3
June 21, 2004
- Access to the Chinese Wikipedia (http://zh.wikipedia.org/) has now been restored for users in Mainland China. Mailing list post: [4] (http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-June/015818.html)
June 19, 2004
- Server will be down for maintenance from about 18:00 to 21:00 UTC. The new database server, Ariel, will be put into the production setup. It is planned to have Wikipedia be read-only from a several days old backup during this time. See the mailing list post [5] (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-June/010753.html).
June 13, 2004
- Wikimedia Board of Directors elections results: Anthere and Angela were announced as the Contributing Active Member Representative and the Volunteer User Representative, respectively. A report by Danny and Imran is forthcoming, after getting consent from the candidates.
- The German Wikipedia (http://de.wikipedia.org) has reached the big milestone of 100,000 articles.
June 12, 2004
June 11, 2004
- Server will be down for maintenance from 18:00 to 18:30 UTC. Reason: "To reboot Zwinger with an updated kernel which will fix the disk driver. This should improve performance; as the main file (not database) server the sluggish disk is a bottleneck." as per [7] (http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-June/015719.html).
June 8, 2004
- Wikipedia sites were offline for about 36 hours due to a database crash [8] (http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Press_summary) [9] (http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Wikipedia_plans). Very little data has been lost, just time.
June 5, 2004
- Jimbo met a group of Wikipedians in person for the first time ever in London today. He spoke for an hour and a half about current Wikimedia issues, the Wiki
holicspedians socialised and we had a Wikipedia quiz. Then we went to the pub. More at WikiMeet.
June 4, 2004
- Jimbo met Arno Lagrange ✉ in person for the first ever international meeting between two wikipedians.
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