Memory:Timeline/2003/fr
2003
Résumé des faits (depuis le 1er janvier)
Numbre de serveurs maintenus par la Fondation Wikimedia : 1[footnotes 1]
Nombre d'employés à la Fondation : 0
Nombre de projets officiels de la Fondation Wikimedia : 3[footnotes 1][1]
Nombre total de mises à jour apportées aux projets officiels de Wikimedia soutenus par la Fondation : 986,819[footnotes 2][2]
Nombre d'affiliés au mouvement Wikimedia : 0
Lignes de code du noyau MediaWiki : 0[footnotes 3]
Dépenses annuelles de la Fondation Wikimedia (de juin à juillet de l'année suivante) : US$56,666[3]
- Wikimedia.org launches as a single page website for the Wikimedia Foundation.
June
- Jimmy Wales announces formation of Wikimedia and intention to create a charity and select a governing board. The intention is to provide a not-for-profit charitable framework for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and the growing technical and organizational infrastructure necessary to support them.
- 9: MediaWiki's ISBN interface is amended to make ISBNs in articles link to Special:Booksources, which fetches its contents from a page editable by contributors.
- 20: Wikimedia Foundation founded in Florida, United States. Until this time, the Wikimedia sites and servers were supported by Bomis, Jimmy Wales's for-profit business at the time.
July
- WikimediaFoundation.org launches as a redirect to Wikimedia.org
- The "Wikipedia software" is officially named "MediaWiki", a wordplay by Daniel Mayer on the Wikimedia Foundation's name. It is adopted as the Foundation's fourth official project.[4]
- 10: Wikimedia Foundation launches its fifth official project, Wikibooks.
- 10: Wikimedia Foundation launches its sixth official project, Wikiquote.
October
- 15: The second place logo of the 2003 Wikipedia international logo contest, created by Neolux, is appointed as the logo for Wikimedia by logo contest organizer Erik Möller. A version by Neolux is adopted for the Wikimedia Foundation.[5] This specific version would remain in use until January 2006, and the overall design remains in use by the Foundation as of June 2023.
November
- 24: Wikimedia Foundation launches its seventh official project, Wikisource.
December
- A major computer crash takes Wikipedia offline for a week and prompts Jimmy Wales to launch a fundraising drive. In less than a week more than US$30,000 is raised, thanks partly to mentions on Slashdot. The money allows the Wikimedia Foundation to purchase nine new servers.
- 6: Wikimedia Foundation developers support ending system messages within MediaWiki displayed to Wikimedia project users from being hard coded, allowing for contributors to modify and translate them easier.
Références
- ↑ "Wikimedia.org". Retrieved June 2023. (Wayback Machine)
- ↑ "All wikis - Edits". Wikimedia Statistics. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 13 June 2023.
- ↑ "Financial Reports". wikimediafoundation.org. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved June 2023.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 While the Wikimedia Foundation had not yet been founded as of 1 January 2003, what would become its initial assets existed and were housed within Bomis, Jimmy Wales's for-profit business at the time.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs named2003projects - ↑ Until July 2003, the software which operated the Wikimedia sites was known as the Wikipedia software. As such, there was no MediaWiki code on 1 January 2003.