Wikipedia in French

Wikipedia in French it is an edition in of , call Wikipédia. Begun in of , this edition has more than 177.000 articles to date of October of 2005 and he is 3ª greater Wikipedia in number of articles after and . An area in which the Wikipedia in French is very complete is in that it talks about articles on . , is creating articles of all the French communes, and also some of the smallest administrative areas (corners), like for example. The Wikipedia in French also difference of the English in its format. In:fr, and usually is put at the beginning of the edition page of the article, although this does not affect the final visualization of the article.

Dates it nails

• 23 of March of 2001 : Date of official creation of the Wikipedia in French.
• 19 of May of 2001 : First kept date of. [ 1 ]
• 6 of June of 2001 : First cover [ 2 ]. It includes the participation of and.
• June of 2002 : Is new logotipo (of color green and quite different from the employee in other Wikipedias) in an initiative of. This independent movement was criticized since no wikipedista of the Wikipedia in French had been consulted, but logotipo stays.
• August of 2002 : They name the first librarians: , and, although it does not agree. First IP blockade.
• 31 of October of 2002 : Transfer to Phase III.
• December of 2002 : A great increase in the activity is registered. It can be analyzed like a series of vandalisms on the part of bot, and the consequent corrections. After this new type of vandalism, software changes to be able to revert the changes tápidamente (it connects to undo, only available for administrators).
• January of 2003 : Hard diminution of the activity, which had mainly to the fall of servants, which limits the participation.
• 6 of February of 2003 : "colored Putsch" in the cover: before => later. New disño, made by, is used next by editions of Wikipedia in other languages (like and ).
• 7 of February of 2003 : The 5 are reached.000 articles.
• 19 of February of 2003 : The 6 are reached.000 articles.
• 7 of March of 2003 : The article of the year becomes the page number 7.000 of the Wikipédia francófona.
• 27 of March of 2003 : Article number 8.000.
• 13 of April of 2003 : The Wikipedia in French exceeds to and becomes the third greater one with 9.051 articles, locating itself behind and .
• 15 of May of 2003 : It is arrived at 10.000 articles.
• 18 of May of 2003 : The cover has been Vista 100.000 times since the accountant implemented itself.
• 7 of 2003 July : Wikipédia has 20.000 pages, of which 12.800 belong to articles.
• Half-full of 2003 July : The calculation of the number of pages is modified. According to the way of previous calculation that detected at least one comma, there were 13.058 encyclopedic articles, and the new calculation (that detects a connection at least), indicates 13.789 articles.
• 5 of August of 2003 : The Wikipédia francófona has 15.000 articles. They are registered more than 20.000 changes from the implementation of software Phase III.
• 20 of August of 2003 : Deshabilitación of some functions to obtain a better yield.
• 4 of September of 2003 : It is arrived at 16.000 articles
• ? of October of 2003 : The Wikipédia francófona uses new logotipo.
• 3-11 of November of 2003 : he is the first user blocked for always being the author of vandalisms repeatedly.
• 17 of November of 2003 : The article is the first one. 38 users participated in their writing.
• 22 of November of 2003 : 20.000 articles.
• 26 of January of 2004 : 25.000 articles.
• 14 of March of 2004 : 30.000 articles.
• End of March of 2004 : Wikipédia in French goes a .
• 1 of May of 2004: 35.000 articles.
• 16 of June of 2004: 40.000 articles.
• 23 of 2004 July: 45.000 articles.
• 29 of August of 2004: 50.000 articles with.
• 2 of November of 2004 to 23:33, are arrived at 60.000 articles with.
• 22 of December of 2004 : 70.000 articles with.
• 6 of February of 2005 : 80.000 articles.
• 14 of March of 2005 : 90.000 articles.
• 21 of April of 2005 : 100000 articles.

External liaisons

• The Wikipedia in French