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September 2002

September 6, 2002

The server's clock is now set to worldwide standard UTC. Please visit your Preferences and make sure your time zone offset is set to something sensible (either 0 to show standard time, or your preferred local time).

September 5, 2002

In the period August 31 - September 5 2002, the estimated article growth rate appears to have been an amazing 209 articles/day.

September 3, 2002

The English-language Wikipedia is now receiving in excess of 200,000 hits/day on many days. See Wikipedia:Traffic for details.

August 2002

August 30, 2002

The article counter has broken the 40,000 article barrier! Time to aim for the next milestone - 50,000 articles.

August 28, 2002

The German Wikipedia has been upgraded to the new Phase III software. Particular improvements are that the wiki now has its own image upload space, and interlanguage links can now be put in to allow easy linking of articles to their counterparts in the other-language wikis. Expect also fun and exciting new bugs; please help find them so we can fix them!

August 15, 2002

Wikipedia has moved! We are now at www.wikipedia.org instead of www.wikipedia.com. The .com URL continues to work and will for the forseeable future, but .org is now preferred and is used for internal linking. If you use a login name, you may have to give your password again to stay logged in.

August 10, 2002

Over a year ago, a company made a copy of Wikipedia at [http://the-fact-factory.com http://the-fact-factory.com]. The site is loaded with advertisements and stagnant.
We are drawing attention to this site now as it has been pointed out that user pages were also copied to the site. You might want to remove or modify your user page at the site.

August 10, 2002

David A. Wheeler has just released html2wikipedia, a tool that translates HTML into Wikipedia's Wiki format. This may help in extracting existing material: translate it into HTML (if it isn't already), use html2wikipedia, and then massage the results. Obviously, please make sure that you don't just do a data dump - you still need to ensure that the copyright is compatible, that the text has a neutral point of view, and so on.

August 4, 2002

The Mycroft Project has a new search plugin available for Mozilla-based browsers, including Netscape 6, for searching the English Wikipedia. Visit http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html and search for "Wikipedia".

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