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Friday, April 29, 2022

Basic timeline of Wikipedia

This post is a basic timeline of Wikipedia. There are 27 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki launched by Ward Cunningham (1994)
• Nupedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (2000)
• Wikipedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (2001)
• Larry Sanger leaves Wikipedia (2002)
• English Wikipedia passes 100,000 articles (2003)
• Wikimedia Foundation is founded (2003)
• Wiktionary is launched (2002)
• Wikiquote is launched (2003)
• Wikibooks is launched (2003)
• Nupedia goes defunct (2003)
• Wikisource is launched (2003)
• Wikimedia Commons is launched (2004)
• Wikinews is launched (2004)
• Wikia is launched (2004)
• Wikispecies is launched (2004)
• English Wikipedia passes 1,000,000 articles (2006)
• Wikiversity is launched (2006)
• Brad Patrick becomes the first CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation (2006)
• Wikivoyage is launched (2006)
• Sue Gardner becomes CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation (2007)
• Wikipedia protests SOPA and PIPA acts with 24 hour shut down (2012)
• Wikidata is launched (2013)
• English Wikipedia passes 5,000,000 articles (2015)
• Katherine Maher becomes executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (2016)
• Katherine Maher becomes CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation (2019)
• WikiTribune is launched (2017)
• Maryana Iskander becomes CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation (2022)