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Administrators, (proposed) Oct 2001, (1000 mark) Sep 2006, (accounts hacked) May 2007,

Akahele, (launch) Feb 2009

Taner Akçam, (defamation of) Feb 2007

Alexa ratings, Dec 2004

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Grant donation) Mar 2008

Ambi, ("District Attorney's Office") Mar 2005, (WikiEnlist) Jul 2005

Answers.com, (partnership for ad revenue) Oct 2005, (index tool) Apr 2006

Antisocialmedia.net, (launch) Sep 2006,

Arbitration Committee, (founding) Jan 2004, (Sandifer prosecutions) Mar 2005, (appointments) Oct 2005, (Kelly Martin resigns, elections) Jan 2006, (Mongo case) Oct 2006, (R Marsden case), Nov 2006, (elections) Dec 2006, ( (Essjay) Feb 2007, (IRC) Feb 2007, (Arbcom and J Wales) Apr 2007, (BADSITES) Sept 2007, (elections) Dec 2007, (elections) Dec 2008, (S Blacketer) May 2009, (elections) Dec 2009

Jon Awbrey, (banning) Sep 2006

B

BADSITES, (Mongo case) Oct 2006, (mayhem) Apr-Jun 2007, (climax) Aug-Oct 2007

Judd Bagley (Wordbomb), (banned) July 2006, (antisocialmedia) Sep 2006, (BADSITES) Aug 2007, (Utah ban) Sept 2007, (register article) Dec 2007, (NTWW radio) Apr 2008, (Akahele) Feb 2009

Fred Bauder, (re-elected) Jan 2006, (Mongo case) Oct 2006, (BADSITES) Sept 2007

Barbara Bauer, (defamation of) May 2008

Will Beback, (dispute with Kathryn Cramer) May 2007

Angela Beesley, (welcomes Everyking) Feb 2004, (launches Wikia) Dec 2004, (Trustees) July 2005, (opposes JW) Jun 2006, (biography) July 2006, (replaced on board) Sept 2006, (advisory board) Jan 2007, (Wikichix) Dec 2006

Chris Benoit, (death) June 2007

Brian Bergstein, (paid editing) Jan 2007

Bessemer Venture Partners, (investment in Wikia) Mar 2006

Biographies of Living Persons (policy), (inauguration) Dec 2005, (single-incident BLPs) Jun 2007

Tony Blair, (with Wales) Mar 2008

Sam Blacketer, (elected) Dec 2007, (suspicions) Nov 2008, (outed) May 2009

Bomis, (launch) 1996, (funds WP) 1999, (L Sanger) Jan 2002, Feb 2002, (Bomis babes) Sept 2005,

Daniel Brandt, (first mention on WP) Jan 2005, (biography) Sept-Dec 2005, (Seigenthaler) Feb 2006, (bio) April 2006, (Essjay) July 2006, (plagiarism) Oct 2006, (bio) Dec 2006, (Essjay) Jan 2007, (bio deleted) Jun 2007, (BADSITES) Oct 2007, (NYBrad) Apr 2008,

Richard Branson, (with Wales) Mar 2008

BBC, (debunking Nature study) Mar 2006, (JW speech) Dec 2007

Brockhaus encyclopedia, (folds) Feb 2008

Tom Brokaw, (bio) Mar 2009

Robert Byrd, (bio) Jan 2009

Patrick Byrne, (bio) Apr 2006, (J Bagley) Jul 2006

C

Cabal, (birth) Oct 2001

CAMERA, (pro-Israeli infiltration) Apr 2008

Campaigns Wikia, (launch) Jul 2006

Nicholas Carr, (blog) May 2006

Charitable status, (gained) Apr 2005

Citizendium, (launched) Oct 2006

Cla68, (blocked) Oct 2007

Co-founder / Sole founder dispute, (L Sanger coins WP) Jan 2001, (J Wales confirms) Oct 2001, (JW edits own bio) Oct 2005, Nov 2005, Dec 2005, (WP spat) Apr 2009

Steven Colbert, (Wikiality) August 2006

Juan Cole, (bio) May 2006

CoolHandLuke, (elected) Dec 2008

Conservapedia, (BADSITES) Jun 2007

Credentials, (JW statements) Mar 2007

Catherine Crier, (bio) May 2009

The Cunctator, (first edit) 2001

Ward Cunningham, (invents wiki) 1994, (advisory board) Jan 2007

Steve Cuozzo, (critical article) Aug 2008

D

Richard Dawkins, (critique) Jul 2007

Ludwig De Braeckeleer, (SlimVirgin) Jul 2007

Florence Devouard, (re-elected) July 2005, (chair) Oct 2006 (quoted) July 2007, (quoted) Dec 2007, (castigates JW) Mar 2008 ((replaced) July 2008

Carolyn Doran, (hired) Sept 2006, (scandal) Dec 2007

Durova, (Wikiscanner) Aug 2008, (secret list) Sep 2007, (blocks Cla68) Oct 2007, (massive controversy) Nov-Dec 2007

E

Ebay, (R Marsden) Mar 2008

Emerald Group, (study) Feb 2008

Encarta, (folds) Mar 2009

Encyclopedia Britannica, (critical of WP) Nov 2004, (deletion) July 2005, (post Seigenthaler musings) Dec 2005, (debunking Nature study) Mar 2006,

Encyclopedia Dramatica, (F Bauder) Oct 2006

English Heritage, (legal issues) Mar 2009

Everyking, (first edits) Feb 2004

Essjay, (WR suspicions) July 2006, (controversy) Jan-March 2007

Ezperanza, (launch) July 2005

F

Seth Finkelstein, (bio) Sept 2006, (bio deleted) Jun 2007, (spat with Wales) Jan 2008, (JW vs L Sanger) Apr 2009

Flagged Revisions, (German WP) May 2008, (poll) Jan 2009

Jossi Fresco, (Register) Feb 2008

FT2, (election) Dec 2007

Fundraising, Mar 2005

G

Sue Gardner, (hired) June 2007, (Exec dir) Dec 2007

Rick Gates, (proposal) 1993

Gay Nigger Association of America, (featured article efforts) Sep 2005

David Gerard, (first edits) Jan 2004, (Wikimedia UK) Mar 2005, (WikiENlist) July 2005, (blocks Utah) Sep 2007, (Virgin Killer) Dec 2008, (deflagged) Nov 2009

German Wikipedia, (launch) Mar 2001, (shut down) Jan 2006, (govmt input) Jun 2007, (flagged revisions) May 2008, (court order) Nov 2008, (falsehoods) Feb 2009

Mike Godwin, (hired) June 2007, (legal counsel) July 2007, (pulls story) May 2008, (anthrax attacks) Aug 2008

Google, (Brandt) Oct 2005

Google Knol, (launch) Jul 2008

GNU Free Documentation License, (launch) 2000

GNUPedia, (confusion with WP) Jan 2001

GNUProject (R Stallman) 1999

Grawp (start) Sep 2007

Mark Grebner, (lawsuit) July 2009

H

Bernard Haisch, (bio) Jun 2006

Hivemind, (launched) Oct 2005.

I

Indian Ocean Tsunami, (misinfo) Feb 2005

Internet Relay Chat, Feb 2007

Internet Watch Foundation, (IWF block image)[/i] Dec 2008, (IWF receive threats) Mar 2009

IP addresses, (WP protect identity) Apr 2005

J

Maurice Jarre, (bio) Mar 2009

Jayjg, (WikiENlist) July 2005, (elected) Jan 2006, (deflagged) May 2009

JoshuaZ, (sockpuppets) Feb 2008

JzG, (bans Wikipedia Review) Jan 2007, (cyberstalking list) Sept 2007, (Rachel Marsden) Feb 2008

K

Andrew Keen, (book) Jun 2007, (debate with Wales) Mar 2008, (documentary) Apr 2008, (debate with Sanger) Jun 2008

Ted Kennedy, (bio) Jan 2009

Ben Kovitz, (idea of using Wiki) 2001

L

Mark Lawson, (false claims in bio) Mar 2006

Joe Leiberman, (defamation) Dec 2007

Philipp Lenssen, (Brandt bio)Oct 2005

Andrew Lih, (Wikipedia Revolution) Mar 2009

Ron Livingston (lawsuit) Dec 2009

M

Mantanmoreland, (first edits) Jan 2006, (P Byrne bio) Apr 2006, (vs J Bagley) Jul 2006, (cyberstalking list) Sept 2007, (Register article) Dec 2007, (banning) May 2008

Rachel Marsden, (noticed by WR) Nov 2006, (affair with Wales) Feb-Mar 2008

Kelly Martin, (first edits) Dec 2004, (arbcom) Oct 2005, (resignation) Jan 2006

Charles Matthews, (elected) Jan 2006, (Carl Hewitt) Dec 2007

Alan Mcilwraith, (hoax bio) Oct 2005

Roger McNamee, (advisory board) Jan 2009

Mediation Committee, (launch) Jan 2004

Microsoft, (paid edits) Jan 2007, (encarta) Mar 2009

Eric Möller, (hired) May 2005, (blocked) Apr 2006, (joins board) Sept 2006, (resigns) Dec 2007, (statements on pedophilia) May 2008

Mongo, (BADSITES case) Oct 2006

Moulton, (radio) Apr 2008

Mugabe, (BLP vandalism) Mar 2007

Don Murphy, (defamation of) Oct 2006

Wikipedia Review (Gregory Kohs), (blocks and unblocks) August 2006, (blocks) Oct 2006, (unblock and interview) Jan 2007, (blocks) Mar 2007, (radio) Apr 2008, (vandalism study) Oct 2008, i](Akahele)[/i] Feb 2009, (unblock) Jun 2009

Mzoli's Meats, (Wales's article) Sept 2007

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Naked Short Selling controversy, (Mantan 1st edits) Jan 2006, (P Byrne bio) Apr 2006, (Bagley banned) July 2006, (antisocialmedia) Sept 2006, (BADSITES) Aug 2007, (Gerard blocks Utah) Sep 2007, (Cla68 blocked) Oct 2007, (Register) Dec 2007, (Mantanmoreland banned) May 2008

National Portrait Gallery, (legal threats) Jun 2009

Nature Study, (debunking) Marc 2006

Nebraska High School, (lawsuit) Jul 2006

New Scientist, (study) Jan 2009

Newyorkbrad, (elected) Dec 2007, (outed) Apr 2008

New York Times, (early piece) Sep 2001, (coverage of scandals) Dec 2005, (critical piece) Mar 2006, (credentials policy) Mar 2007, (Taliban) Nov 2008, (Taliban) Jun 2009

No Follow Tags, (added) Jan 2007

NOINDEX, (citizendium) May 2007

No Personal Attacks (Policy), (creation) Apr 2002

NotTheWikipediaWeekly, (launch) Mar 2008, Apr 2008

Nupedia, (launch and demise)2000 - 2001

O

Barack Obama, (defamation of) Feb 2009

Omidyar network, (donation) Aug 2009

The Onion, (spoof) Jul 2006

Andrew Orlowski, (critical article) Oct 2005

OTRS (ticket system for complaints about WP), (launch) Jan 2006

P

Paid Editing, (proposed) Apr 2006

Sarah Palin, (premeditated editing) Aug 2008

Brad Patrick, (hired as counsel) June 2006, (resigns) Mar 2007

Pedophilia, (BLP defamation) Nov 2005, (userboxes) Feb 2006, (image) Apr 2006, (Wikia spanking site) Jan 2008, (E Möller) May 2008

Plagiarisim, (students) Jul 2006, (Brandt) Oct 2006

Brian Peppers, (article for deletion) Dec 2005

Lev Ponomarev, (bio) Apr 2009

Simon Pulsifer (SimonP), (interview) Jan 2008

Q

Qatar, (block) Jan 2007

Quid encyclopedia, (folds) Feb 2008

R

Ayn Rand, (Wales email list) 1989, Mar 1994

Raul654, ("District Attorney's Office") Mar 2005

Requests for Adminship, (implementation) Jun 2003

The Register, ("WP has serious problems") Oct 2005, (Cade Metz 1st article) July 2007, (covers scandals) Dec 2007, (Jossi) Feb 2008,

David Rohde, (Taliban) Nov 2008, Jun 2009

Roy Rosenzweig, (essay) Jun 2006

Alex Roshuk, (on JW) Dec 2007

Tim Russert, (bio) Jun 2008

S

Phil Sandifer (Snowspinner), (self-appointed prosecutor) Mar 2005

Larry Sanger, (manifesto) 1994, (at Nupedia WP) 2000-5, (citizendium) Oct 2006, (interview) Apr 2007, (NOINDEX - bio) May 2007, (documentary) Apr 2008, (debate) Jun 2008, (spat with Wales) Apr 2009

Scientology, (banning) Jun 2009

Scottish Parent Teacher Council, (blames WP) Jun 2008

Jason Scott, (lecture) Apr 2007

John Seigenthaler, (defamation of) May-Dec 2005, (Brandt) (citizendium) Oct 2006, Feb 2006, (more defamation) Sept 2006, (criticisms of JW, speech) Apr 2007,

Semi-Protection, (implemetation) Dec 2005

David Shankbone, (Israel trip) Dec 2008, (L Sanger vs JW spat) Apr 2009

Tim Shell, (Bomis) 1996

Clay Shirky, (advisory board) Jan 2007

SlimVirgin, (Brandt) Jan 2005, (Brandt bio) Sept-Oct 2005, (WP:ATT) Mar 2007, (oppose vote for admin) May 2007, (cyberstalking list) Sept 2007,

Michael Snow, (elected to board) Jul 2008

Spanish Wikipedia, (fork) Feb 2002

Bruce Springsteen, (bio) Feb 2009

Richard Stallman, (encyclopedia proposal) 1999, (GNUpedia) Jan 2001

Jens Stoltenberg, (defamation of) Nov 2005

T

Teachers Unions, (criticisms) Apr 2007

Three Revert Rule, (creation) Nov 2004

The Truth According to Wikipedia, (movie) Apr 2008

The Times, (fake footballer) Jan 2009

U

Userboxes, (pedophilia) Feb 2006

V

Valleywag, (R Marsden and expenses scandals) Feb-Mar 2008, (E Möller) May 2008

Vandalism Study, (Oct 2008)

Brion Vibber, (hired) May 2005

Virgin Killer (LP cover), (noticed by media) May 2008, (IWF block image) Dec 2008, (IWF receive threats) Mar 2009

W

Jimmy Wales, 1989-2009

Kat Walsh (Mindspillage), (elected) Oct 2005

George Washington, (shit on stick) May 2007

Alison Wheeler, (Wikimedia UK launched) Mar 2005, (WMUK disbanded) Sep 2008

Simon Wiesenthal, (defamation of) Sep 2005

Willy On Wheels, (start) Aug 2004, (prevention) Mar 2005, (redirects) Aug 2005

Wikia, (launch) Dec 2004, March 2006, (Cyberstalking list) Nov 2007, (connection with WP) Jan 2009, Mar 2009

Wikianswers, Jan 2009

Wikia Search, (proposed) Dec 2006, (plans) Mar 2007, (launch) Jan 2008, (folds) Mar 2009

WikiEN-l mailing list, (launch) 2001

Wikimedia Foundation, (launch) Jun 2003, (charity status) Apr 2005, (trademark) Jan 2006, (board) Oct 2006, Dec 2007,

Wikimedia UK, (launch) Mar 2005, Sep 2008

Wikipedia Art, (launch) Mar 2008

Wikipedia Review, (launch) Nov 2005, (new launch) Feb 2006, (WP plan attacks) May 2006, (blacklist) Apr 2007, (Jossi) Feb 2008, (radio) Apr 2008, (vandalism study) Oct 2008, (S Blacketer) Nov 2008,

Wikipedia Watch, (launch) Oct 2005

Wikipedia Weekly, (launch) Oct 2006

WikiScanner, (launch) Aug 2007

Wikitionary, (launch) Dec 2002

Danny Wool, (hired) May 2005, (blanks bio) Mar 2006, (blocks E Möller) Apr 2006, (resigns) Mar 2008, (blog) Jan 2008, (revelations about WMF) Mar 2008,

Y

Yahoo, (indexing) Mar 2004

Z

Zoe, (email to professor) Jan 2007

Fuzzy Zoeller, (defamation of) Feb 2007

1989
Jimmy Wales http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia/2 the Ayn Rand Philosophy Discussion Email List and serves as moderator.

1993
October 22nd
Rick Gates proposes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpedia, "The Internet Encyclopedia" which never leaves the planning stages.

1994
Computer programmer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham begins work on the software 'WikiWikiWeb' which became the first 'Wiki'. Cunningham later wrote the book Wiki Way describing the process, and remains a member of Wikimedia's Advisory Board.

March 22nd
Larry Sanger, who is an occasional contributor to Wales's Ayn Rand list, writes a 'manifesto' on his own online mailing list (eventually named the Association for Systematic Philosophy). Sanger writes: "The history of philosophy is full of disagreement and confusion. One reaction by philosophers to this state of things is to doubt whether the truth about philosophy can ever be known, or whether there is any such thing as the truth about philosophy. But there is another reaction: one may set out to think more carefully and methodically than one’s intellectual forebears."

1996
November 15th
Jimmy Wales and Tim Shell found the dot-com Web directory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomis.

1999
Software freedom activist and creator of the GNU project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman calls for development of a free on-line encyclopedia through the means of inviting the public to contribute articles. He describes this in his essay The Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource.

Autumn
Jimmy Wales http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia/2 about a “volunteer-built” online encyclopedia to be funded by Bomis.

2000
January
Larry Sanger http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia/2 Jimmy Wales a business proposal for what is in essence a cultural news blog.

March
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License#cite_note-onepoint3faq-1 version 1.1 released.

March 9th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales. Sanger becomes 'Editor in Chief' and http://www.pcworld.com/article/15676/building_the_worlds_biggest_encyclopedia.html to make Nupedia "the world's largest encyclopedia." Nupedia plans to be a formally constructed online encyclopaedia establishing a verification system to ensure that the expert contributors are experts.

June
Larry Sanger http://larrysanger.org/#Education in philosophy and gets a raise.

July
The 'Nupedia Advisory Board' is installed. 'Atonality', believed to be the first Nupedia article, is published after peer review.

2001
January
Nupedia's mailing list http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/19/1746205&tid=95 to almost 2,000 people.

January 2nd
Ben Kovitz (computer programmer and polymath) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Wikipedia&oldid=65610 of a wiki to Larry Sanger over dinner (also known as http://knol.google.com/k/anthony-dipierro/the-conversation-at-the-taco-stand/1m4q8jxsfv85t/8#), Sanger considers the wiki format as suitable for the Nupedia project. (See http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213&tid=95&tid=149&tid=9)

January 10th
Larry Sanger http://web.archive.org/web/20030822044513/http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000676.html. According to Sanger, "It's an idea to add a little feature to Nupedia. Jimmy Wales thinks that many people might find the idea objectionable, but I think not."

January 11th
Sanger http://web.archive.org/web/20030711101528/http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000680.html for the Wiki project.

January 12th
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=wikipedia.com and http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=wikipedia.org domain names are registered.

January 15th
Wikipedia Launches at Wikipedia.com after Nupedia's Advisory Board expresses concern about a Wiki being associated with Nupedia. Wikipedia develops a life of its own and begins to function largely independently of Nupedia, although Sanger initially leads activity on Wikipedia by virtue of his position as Nupedia's editor-in-chief.

January 16th
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:UuU&oldid=291430

January 17th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUPedia, a similar project to develop a free encyclopedia, is launched after being proposed by GNU founder Richard Stallman in 1999. Confusion between GNUPedia and Nupedia stifles the project, not helped by the fact that Jimmy Wales had purchased the gnupedia.org domain name.

March
Wikipedia boasts over 1300 articles.

March 5th
Jimmy Wales http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/02/1422244&tid=99 about Nupedia. He ends the interview stating, "People who want to get started _today_ on contributing free texts to the world can do so at Wikipedia. All the content is released under the GNU FDL, and it already has over 1000 articles. Short, and maybe not the high quality of Nupedia, but with time? Who knows..."

March 16th
German language and Catalan Wikipedias launched.

May 11th
French language Wikipedia launched.

June 26th
"Wikipedia is now useful!", announces Larry Sanger.

July 6th
Larry Sanger, who still considers Nupedia to be the primary project, http://web.archive.org/web/20030712080757/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-July/000916.html a backroom Wiki for Nupedia only viewable to members, where articles can be improved and then approved for publishing by Nupedia. Wikipedia, which is operating concurrently and has far fewer participants, is seen by Sanger as a test case for what could be achieved on Nupedia.

July 26th
Wikipedia editor The Cunctator (T-C-L-K-R-D) makes his first edit. He becomes perhaps the first Wiki-addict.

September
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2001-September/thread.html

September 20th
New York Times publishes a piece on Wikipedia called http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/technology/fact-driven-collegial-this-site-wants-you.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/C/Computer%20Software&pagewanted=1. Jimbo Wales: ''It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work'.'

October
Wikipedia grows at a rate of around 50 new editors a month.

October 18th
Jimmy Wales http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000584.html the principles of what he terms "cabal membership". This becomes the bureaucratic framework of Wikipedia.

October 30th
Jimmy Wales http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000671.htmlt Larry Sanger had the idea to use Wiki software for a separate project (Wikipedia) to accompany Nupedia. Later, in 2005, Wales gave a different story http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/05/assignment_zero_citizendium "Larry Sanger was my employee working under my direct supervision during the entire process of launching Wikipedia. He was not the originator of the proposal to use a wiki for the encyclopedia project."

December
Larry Sanger gets married, and moves to Colorado.

2002
January
Larry Sanger is http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Announcement_about_my_involvement_in_Wikipedia_and_Nupedia--Larry_Sanger by Bomis.

February 1st
Sanger is http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Announcement_about_my_involvement_in_Wikipedia_and_Nupedia--Larry_Sanger.

February 12th
Sanger http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Announcement_about_my_involvement_in_Wikipedia_and_Nupedia--Larry_Sanger "Bomis might well start selling ads on Wikipedia sometime within the next few months, and revenue from those ads might make it possible for me to come back to my old job."

February 26th
Participants in the Spanish language Wikipedia leave the project to form http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Libre citing statements from Bomis, Inc. regarding advertising on all Wikipedia sites. The Spanish language Wikipedia suffers, before overtaking the forked Wiki in article numbers in November 2004.

March 1st
Larry Sanger http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/My_resignation--Larry_Sanger as "Editor in Chief" of Nupedia and "any position of authority I had with Wikipedia".

April 24th
Wikipedia editor Lee Daniel Crocker (T-C-L-K-R-D) writes the first version of Wikipedia's http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks&diff=prev&oldid=596665 policy.

August
wikipedia.com changes to wikipedia.org

December 12th
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page launched.

2003
June 14th
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship&oldid=1035620 (RFA) is introduced on Wikipedia.

June 20th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation founded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiquote launched.

July 10th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikibooks launched.

October 28th
The first arranged meet-up of Wikipedians takes place in Munich. Since then regular meetups of Wikipedians are held.

November 24th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource launched.

2004
January
Arbitration and Mediation Committees announced, http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-January/009636.html.

January 4th
David Gerard (T-C-L-K-R-D) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:David_Gerard&diff=prev&oldid=2181721 on the day he makes his first edit.

February 2nd
The http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Milestones on the English Wikipedia is created.

February 13th
Angela Beesley http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Everyking&diff=prev&oldid=2410412 Everyking (T-C-L-K-R-D) to Wikipedia on the day he makes his first edit.

March 2nd
Yahoo! http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release1144.html that Wikipedia content will be indexed more often and featured prominently on Yahoo! pages.

April 20th
The http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Milestones on the English Wikipedia is created. The latest 50,000 articles have been created in just 78 days.

August 20th
One of the most http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Willy_on_Wheels#Adoration_from_fans in Wikipedia history, http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Vandalism_exposed#Vandalism_personalities, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Willy_on_wheels around this day.

November 15th
Former editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia Britannica Robert McHenry writes http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=111504A, an article critical of Wikipedia, which gains some attention.

November 28th
Voting ends on the topic of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Three_revert_rule_enforcement known as the 'three-revert rule' policy. In future, anyone reverting content to a previous state three times on the same article can face sanctions.

December 21st
Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikia. as a Florida Corporation

December 29th
Kelly Martin (T-C-L-K-R-D) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kelly_Martin&diff=prev&oldid=8932438 two days after her first edit.

December 31st
Wikipedia enters Alexa's list of the top 100 English-language websites for the first time.

2005

January 4th
Editor SlimVirgin (T-C-L-K-R-D) http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Talk:John_Train_Salon as an article source on the (now deleted) article 'John Train Salon'. This is the first mention of Brandt in relation to Wikipedia who at this time is unaware of the site. SlimVirgin writes: "I removed Daniel Brandt. He's not a credible source..." and shows familiarity with Brandt. SlimVirgin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Train_Salon and talk page three months later.

February 14th
Wikipedia is accused of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-02-14/Misinformation_on_Wikipedia which found its way into a Washington Post article on the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

March 1st
The first on site fundraising effort ends raising $94,000.

March 7th
MediaWiki developers activate a feature which ends the ability of new user accounts to perform page moves. This is implemented after a spate of mischievous page moves by notorious activist Willy on Wheels (T-C-L-K-R-D) .

March 18th
English Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-03-21/Half-million_articles 500,000 articles.

March 21st
Wikipedia editor 'Snowspinner', real name Phil Sandifer (T-C-L-K-R-D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-03-21/Arbitration_report a "self-appointed prosecutor" against other Wikipedia editors. Sticking to his pledge, he brings many new requests to be judged by the Arbitration Committee, including accusations against long term editor Everyking. Sandifer sows significant discord among Wikipedians, and sets off a myriad of bitter feuds between users that last for several years.

March 22nd
'Snowspinner' alongside arbitrators Raul654 (T-C-L-K-R-D) and Ambi (T-C-L-K-R-D) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-03-28/Prosecution_and_de-adminship which aims to "prosecute" other editors more efficiently. Snowspinner declares himself "dictator", with other participants being designated as partners. The unpopular venture creates further disharmony and is shelved.

March 28th
Several Wikipedia editors in the UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-03-28/London_meetup the possibility of a UK chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. The group is led by Australian, David Gerard (T-C-L-K-R-D) , and 'Vampwillow (T-C-L-K-R-D) '. Vampwillow is http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=15501&view=findpost&p=75735 to be Alison Wheeler (T-C-L-K-R-D) using two admin accounts against policy, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Alison_Wheeler to keep her own biography on Wikipedia. (Bio since deleted and replaced by that of a notable singer with the same name)

April 7th
The Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-04-11/Privacy_policy a privacy policy to protect the identification of IP addresses and anonymous users' real life information.

April 16th
The Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-04-18/Tax_exempt_status that it has officially been recognized as a tax-exempt charitable organization in the United States.

April 18th
Larry Sanger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-04-25/The_Sanger_memoirs of setting up Wikipedia and Nupedia.

May 16th
Jimmy Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-05-30/Foundation_official_positions the appointment of seven people to official positions in the Wikimedia Foundation. These are; Brion Vibber as Chief Technical Officer; Domas Mituzas as Hardware Officer; Jens Frank as Developer Liaison; Erik Möller as Chief Research Officer; Danny Wool as Grants Coordinator; Elisabeth Bauer as Press Officer; Jean-Baptiste Soufron as Lead Legal Coordinator

May 26th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy)
Brian Chase, a delivery manager in Tennessee, creates a Wikipedia biography of journalist and writer John Seigenthaler. It includes hoax claims that Seigenthaler was "directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby".

June
Wikimedia servers are transported to a new location in Tampa, Florida.

June 27th
English Wikipedia now has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-07-04/Admin_milestones,_debate.

July 4th
Moderators of Wikipedia's mailing list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-07-04/Mailing_list_moderation on what they claim is "disruptive behavior" by other subscribers. Complaints by Wikipedia administrators Jayjg, Ambi and David Gerard lead to moves by Gerard to moderate new subscribers "by default".

July 18th
Angela Beesley and Florence Nibart-Devouard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-07-18/Wikimedia_board_elections to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

July 25th
A Wikipedia Arbitrator immediately http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=The+Know-It-All:+One+Man's+Humble+Quest+to+Become+the+Smartest+Person+in+the+World (out of process and without discussion) a new article on the book "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Know-It-All:_One_Man's_Humble_Quest_to_Become_the_Smartest_Person_in_the_World". The book details the writer's experience of reading the entire Encyclopædia Britannica. The article is later restored per process.

August 12th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Esperanza launched. This is a sub-group created within Wikipedia to "indirectly support the encyclopedia by providing support and other assistance for Wikipedians in need, and by strengthening Wikipedia's sense of community". The organization is disbanded in January 2007.

August 29th
Massive spate of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-08-29/Vandals_resurface by the allusive "Willy On Wheels". Willy, who may be one person or a team of collaborators, manages to change the multiple-language portal at www.wikipedia.org for over an hour, altering the Wikipedia logo on WikiCommons to a picture referencing himself.

September (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy)
Victor S. Johnson, Jr., discovers the hoax Wikipedia entry on John Seigenthaler. After Johnson alerted him to the article, Seigenthaler e-mails friends and colleagues about it.

September 4th
Wikipedia editors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Gay_Nigger_Association_of_America on the controversial internet entity Gay Nigger Association of America "featured" and on the site's Main Page.

Also on September 4th
Jimmy Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=next&oldid=22551871 on his own Wikipedia biography to change the words "softcore pornography" to "adult content", in a section detailing his involvement in "Bomis Babes".

September 21st
A day after the death of Simon Wiesenthal, a holocaust survivor who helped track down more than 1000 Nazi war criminals, Wikipedia http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking/wiesenthal-denigrated/2005/09/21/1126982101177.html?oneclick=true displaying outrageous false information about Wiesenthal, claiming he partook in oral sex acts in Austria with other men. The Council of Australian Jewry go public with their complaints.

September 28th
Wikipedia editor SlimVirgin starts a biography on Daniel Brandt.

October (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy)
John Seigenthaler contacts Jimmy Wales, who took the then-unusual step of having the affected versions of his biography history hidden from public view in the Wikipedia version logs. Mirror websites not controlled by Wikipedia continue to display the older and inaccurate article.

October 5th
Scottish call-center worker Alan Mcilwraith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_McIlwraith on himself depicting a bogus life as a decorated war hero. The biography lasts until the media break the hoax in April 2006.

October 11th
Jimmy Wales http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-October/030386.html editors Mindspillage (Kat Walsh) and Kelly Martin to the Arbitraton Committee.

October 12th
SlimVirgin http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/oldhive.html complaint that he was not notified about his biography with "we tend not to do that." Brandt begins editing the article himself making corrections. SlimVirgin asks that he ceases.

October 13th
Daniel Brandt launches http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/. On the site, Brandt publishes an open letter requesting that Jimmy Wales "lock down" the article, who replies that this is "...an impossible and absurd request."

October 16th
SlimVirgin agrees to delete the Daniel Brandt biography entirely.

October 18th
Wikipedia critic Andrew Orlowski runs the article, "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/" in The Register, which is highly critical of the site.

October 24th
The Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-10-24/Answers.com_partnership with Answers.com. Answers.com provides direct scrapes of Wikipedia articles. In return, Wikipedia and Answers.com will split advertising revenue from the Answers.com website

October 26th-29th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwiki, a pro-Google blogger antagonistic towards Brandt's anti-Google investigations, restores Brandt's biography. It is immediately deleted for a second time. Lenssen http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-10-29-n72.html about the situation, and gains support from readers prepared to challenge Brandt. The biography is recreated by administrator Canderson7 (T-C-L-K-R-D) who asserts to Brandt that "resistance is in fact futile". The article is filled with increasingly hostile edits.

October 28th
Jimmy Wales edits his own biography http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=prev&oldid=26748362 of Larry Sanger as co-founder of Wikipedia.

November 4th
Daniel Brandt's biography is protected, unprotected, deleted several times and finally restored. Brandt participates in the discussions maintaining his position that he is a private figure and the article is an invasion of privacy. Multiple anonymous administrators http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/oldhive.html with derisory statements including "Poor baby", "He can cry about this until the cows come home", and suggestions that everyone "point and laugh" at Brandt's open letter to Jimmy Wales. Brandt is blocked from the site.

November 5th
First incarnation of Wikipedia Review launches.

November 7th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Daniel_Brandt on the biography of Daniel Brandt ends in a "keep".

November 9th
Jimmy Wales edits his own biography http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=prev&oldid=27799453 of Larry Sanger as "setting up" Wikipedia. This is the second time Wales has removed Sanger from the article.

Also on November 9th
Brandt also launches http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html, which lists the real life identity of prominent Wikipedia administrators. Brandt http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=17382&hlHivemind as a service "because someone, somewhere, has to take responsibility for the content on Wikipedia".

November 11th
The English article on Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-11-21/In_the_news that he had been in prison for pedophilia. Norwegian media publish stories describing Wikipedia's error.

November 13th
Due to reservations from several Wikipedians, Daniel Brandt's biography is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Daniel_Brandt_2 for a second time. The result is keep.

November 29th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy)
USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-29-wikipedia-edit_x.htm written by John Seigenthaler. Seigenthaler describes his Wikipedia defamation experience and calls Wikipedia a "flawed and irresponsible research tool."

December (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy)
Daniel Brandt http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=332&view=findpost&p=2941 the IP address responsible for the Seigenthaler biography hoax to a company in Tennessee.

December 1st
Jimmy Wales edits his own biography again to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=next&oldid=29772366 "co" from "co-founder" and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&diff=next&oldid=29849184 Larry Sanger's role in the founding of Wikipedia. Wales's revision directly contradictshttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-October/000671.html he had made two years earlier.

December 5th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy)
John Seigenthaler appears on CNN. He criticizes Wikipedia and US Congress for passing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which protects ISPs and web sites from being held legally responsible for disseminating content provided by their customers and users, "unlike print and broadcast companies."

Also on December 5th
In light of the Seigenthaler contoversy, Jimmy Wales announces that the creation of new Wikipedia articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-12-05/Page_creation_restrictions for accounts that have not set up a user name.

December 9th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_biography_controversy)
Brian Chase confesses to the John Seigenthaler hoax and resigns from his job. Seigenthaler receives a hand-written apology and speaks with Chase on the phone.

December 11th
A Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brian_Chase_(Wikipedia_hoaxer)&diff=prev&oldid=30929864 on Brian Chase.

December 14th
Former editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia Britannica Robert McHenry writes a follow-up piece to his 2004 critique http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=111504A, to incorporate the Seigenthaler controversy called http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=121305E.

December 17th
Wikipedia agrees on a new guideline, 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographies_of_living_persons' (BLP). Editorial restrictions are introduced on the creation of new Wikipedia articles; and new tracking categories for the biographies of living people are implemented.

Also on December 17th, a http://wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Wikitruth:Brian_Peppers, a 37 year old American who had become an "internet meme" due to his extreme physical malformations caused by Crouzon syndrome. The article was "speedy deleted" the following day, before being restored with 66% support. The article is deleted and restored several times before being deleted unilaterally by Jimmy Wales on 22nd February 2006. The comings and goings of the article cause considerable dispute between opposing camps.

December 22nd
"Semi-protection" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-12-26/Semi-protection on Wikipedia. This allow administrators to prevent edits from IP addresses and newly created accounts on specific articles.

December 24th
New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/technology/24online.ready.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1135566693-IKKY3ToNVVTPfXDSkCSeQQ Jimmy Wales's controversial edits to his own biography, and recaps the Seigenthaler controversy.

2006
January 10th
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-01-16/Trademark_registered&oldid=35499220 of the Wikimedia Foundation.

January 12th
Kelly Martin resigns from the Arbitration committee.

January 15th
'Communications committee' http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_Communications_committee to handle media inquiries and emails received for the foundation and Wikipedia via the newly implemented OTRS (a ticket handling system).

January 19th
A German Court http://www.chaaban.info/2006/01/19/wikipedia-germany-closed/ after the family of deceased phreaker/hacker “Tron” sued Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. for using the deceased’s full name in an entry.

January 22nd
Voting ends for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_January_2006. Mindspillage (T-C-L-K-R-D) , Charles Matthews  (T-C-L-K-R-D) and Jayjg (T-C-L-K-R-D) are appointed among others (Jayjg had already served several months). Fred Bauder (T-C-L-K-R-D) is reelected.

January 28th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/)
'Mantanmoreland' http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naked_short_selling&diff=prev&oldid=37119258 to Wikipedia. Formerly, the IP address 70.23.85.112 (T-C-L-K-R-D) , suspected of being Mantanmoreland, had been editing the article Naked Short Selling (T-H-L-K-D) and writing that the practice was a "nonissue".

February 6th
Jimmy Wales redirects a Wikipedia biography of Brian Chase, the Seigenthaler hoaxer. He http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikipedia_biography_controversy&diff=prev&oldid=38505488 that Daniel Brandt "violated this man's privacy severely by releasing his name and identity to the press". Brandt http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=332 stating that he told the press he was "uncomfortable with Wikipedia putting up a dedicated page on Mr. Chase" and that it was actually Seigenthaler who put Chase's name into print. Brandt's own biography continues to be a source of contention and shows no signs of being similarly redirected.

Also on February 6th
Five Wikipedia administrators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-02-06/Userbox_warring by Jimbo Wales after a Wikipedia-War erupts over userboxes. Userboxes are decorative images that editors use to identify themselves on their editor pages. A userbox was created by User:Paroxysm and stated that the user "identifies as a pedophile". Wikipedia libertarians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_February_5#Template:User_paedophile the userbox battled against those who found it distasteful.

February 26th
Second incarnation of Wikipedia Review launches.

March 1st
The Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Publishes_Millionth_Article of the 1,000,000th article in the English language edition of Wikipedia

March 10th
New York venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2006/03/13/story1.html $4 million to help Wikia.

March 12th
New York Times publishes critical article http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/business/yourmoney/12digi.html?_r=1.

March 13th
Danny Wool, in his new role implementing "Office actions" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-03-13/Office_actions on Jack Thompson, a Florida attorney and activist, for legal reasons. The article had been criticized for its overwhelmingly negative portrayal of Thompson, and its lack of sources. In its last version before it was blanked, the article contained at least 21 uncited statements.

March 24th
BBC and other media outlets http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4840340.stm Encyclopaedia Britannica's debunking of the pro-Wikipedia Nature study. Britannica say the study contained "a pattern of sloppiness, indifference to basic scholarly standards, and flagrant errors so numerous they completely invalidated the results".

Also on March 24th
Guardian journalist and TV presenter Mark Lawson http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/mar/24/comment.religion how his life was changed after being erroneously depicted as Jewish in his Wikipedia biography.

March 26th
http://wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Main_Page launched. Wikitruth is a satirical Wiki hosting criticisms of Wikipedia and reposting deleted articles from the site.

March 28th
Bessemer Venture Partners and the investment group of eBay Inc. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wikipedia-founder-goes-commercial that they are participants in a $4 million initial round of investment in Wikia Inc.

April 4th
Administrator Sam Korn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/RFC_April_2006 described as a "sexualized drawing of minor female" and is taken to task by a number of Wikipedians for "censorship". Jimmy Wales comments, "Sam rocks. For something like this it is far better to err on the side of tastefulness and respect. Let us not let the pedophile trolls set the standard for our debates."

April 5th
Articles for deletion/Daniel Brandt (3rd nomination) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Daniel_Brandt_(3rd_nomination).

April 11th
Jimmy Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Tools&diff=prev&oldid=48023818 a new tool intended to bring revenue to Wikipedia from advertising on a partner site, Answers.com. Eric Möller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-04-17/Answers_tool.

April 14th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/)
"Mantanmoreland" http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gary_Weiss&diff=prev&oldid=48341962 a Wikipedia biography of Gary Weiss.

April 19th
Danny Wool http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-April/044084.html Eric Möller (Eloquence (T-C-L-K-R-D) ) for "reckless endangerment -- OFFICE". After some too-ing and fro-ing, Jimmy Wales unblocks Möller the same day. Wool, a paid employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, had "stubbed" and protected two articles while representing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Office_actions, which means that he is acting under the authority of the Wikimedia Foundation to resolve urgent legal problems. Möller, a researcher for the Wikimedia Foundation and partner of board member Angela Beesley, unprotected the same articles without discussion.

April 24th
A "Paid editor job board" is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-04-24/Job_board, which is met by controversy, but later morphs into the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid_editor_job_board which is still running.

April 29th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/)[/i]
Mantamoreland, using another account name of Lastexit (T-C-L-K-R-D) , adds significant negative material to the biography of Patrick Byrne. Byrne is a vocal critic of the controversial market practice of Naked Short Selling.

April 30th
The http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/washington/30wiki.html Wikipedia's capacity to be "a remarkably useful for political dirty tricksters", citing a number of cases including a recent controversy when a US Republican campaign manager reworked an opponent's biography to add scurrilous claims.

May 22nd
Professor Juan Cole, outspoken critic of US foreign policy, http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/22/18245911.php with his Wikipedia biography, "I gave up trying to correct facts on various issues and now just actively warn students that Wikipedia is not an acceptable source for research projects or even casual knowledge".

May 24th
Influential blogger Nicholas Carr pronounces"http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/05/the_death_of_wi.php".

May 28th
Wikipedians http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/047775.html the growing influence of Wikipedia Review. One administrator writes "The Foundation should take one of these trolls and use the legal system and/or the press to crucify him. The value of a troll's head on a pike as a deterrent to other trolls would be worth the cost and difficulty. "

June
Historian Roy Rosenzweig http://chnm.gmu.edu/resources/essays/d/42 an indepth look at Wikipedia for The Journal of American History.

June 2nd
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:CEO, letting Jimmy Wales name the new Chief Executive Officer of the Wiki Media Foundation. Angela Beesley opposes.

June 16th
Brad Patrick, heretofore a practicing attorney engaged in some pro bono work with the Foundation starting in the fall of 2005, was named as general counsel and interim executive director; in the latter capacity, Patrick was http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Announces_Interim_Executive_Director in its search for a permanent executive director.

June 19th
Astrophysicist Bernard Haisch attempts to clarify bad edits made to his biography and is confronted by an anonymous editor KSmrq (T-C-L-K-R-D) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Bernard_Haisch&diff=59499771&oldid=59495777, "You do not get to choose whether or not an article on you appears in Wikipedia, and you have no veto power over its contents. The article can cast you as a genius or an imbecile, a respected scientist or a crackpot. [...] Wikipedia does not operate by ''your'' rules, but by its own conventions; I suggest you learn to accept it. " Haisch http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/24/opinion/oe-haisch24 in the New York Times.

July 4th
Jimmy Wales http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Mission_Statement his Mission Statement for the new site Campaigns Wikia. Wales http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-May/047775.html that "This can be the start of the era of net-driven participatory politics".

July 7th
Angela Beesley resigns from the Wikimedia Foundation board.

Also on July 7th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/) Judd Bagley, an associate of Patrick Byrne and later Communications Officer for Byrne's company Overstock.com, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2006-07-07_Gary_Weiss Mantanmoreland and another account (Lastexit) as journalist Gary Weiss. Bagley's account, Wordbomb, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:WordBomb indefinately from Wikipedia by SlimVirgin for "appearing to try to out another Wikipedian".

July 12th
Angela Beesley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Angela_Beesley_(3rd_nomination) for the third time. "I'm sick of this article being trolled. It's full of lies and nonsense." The article is kept despite a significant number of delete votes.

July 22nd
A Nebraska private school http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-24/Skutt_suitt to determine the identity of the person or persons responsible for edits to the Wikipedia article about the school.

July 26th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy)
Daniel Brandt http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=2778 on Wikipedia Review asking "Who is Essjay?" 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy' is a prolific Wikipedia editor with extraordinary bureaucratic powers on the encyclopedia. 'Essjay' boldly claims on his user page to be a tenured professor at a Catholic College in the US. http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=7110

Also on July 26th, Judd Bagley http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=2771&st=0&p=12681&#entry12681 on Wikipedia Review as Wordbomb. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/)

Also on July 26th
The Onion http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902 mocking Wikipedia inaccuracies. Several high profile Wikipedia editors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-31/The_Onion to Wikipedia's registration process in light of the ridicule meted out in the article.

July 27th
A professor at the University of Oklahoma http://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-Wikipedia-Warning/2348 that 16 students plagiarised sections of their final papers for a history of science course. Nine of those students, the professor found, had copied entries on Wikipedia virtually verbatim.

July 31st (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy)
The New Yorker publishes http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact on Wikipedia, written by Stacy Schiff, which features an interview with 'Essjay'. Essjay repeats his claims that he is a tenured professor.

August 1st
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=2853 where the word wikiality is first coined. Colbert runs a story on the Wikipedia article "Elephant" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-07/Wikiality, which causes panic on the site.

August 2nd
Numerous dates of death are mischievously added to biographies of living retired US baseball players. The falsehoods are discovered only after shocked relatives had contacted players themselves.

August 9th
Jimmy Wales blocks the account Wikipedia Review (T-C-L-K-R-D) . Wikipedia Review is a venture devised by Gregory Kohs that would allow Kohs to write a comprehensive neutral Wikipedia article at the bequest of paying businesses. Kohs insists he was transparent about his business model.

August 11th
Jimmy Wales unblocks Wikipedia Review having reached what Wales describes as "a very favorable agreement".

August 28th
Daniel Mayer resigns as Chief Financial Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation. Tricia Hoffman hired part time as Wikimedia Foundation bookkeeper.

September (http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071220/carolyn-doran-timeline-of-events/)
Carolyn Doran is hired by the Wikimedia Foundation as a bookkeeper.

September 2nd
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-09-05/1000_Administrators 1000 administrators.

September 6th
A year on from the Seigenthaler controversy, the edit "On November, 22nd, 1963, John Seigenthaler, Sr. killed and ate then-President John F. Kennedy" http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Seigenthaler,_Sr.&diff=74452278&oldid=74188370 for over thirty hours before being spotted.

September 7th
Scholar Jon Awbrey http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=74314696#User:Jon_Awbrey_project_spam from Wikipedia by a small group of notorious editors for "wasting the community's patience" while creating projects. Awbrey becomes prolific critic of Wikipedia.

September 9th
http://antisocialmedia.net/the-strawman-cometh/ on antisocialmedia.net, set up to expose Gary Weiss' sockpuppetry and other dealings in regard to Naked Short Selling on Wikipedia.

September 25th
Erik Möller replaces Angela Beesley on the Wikimedia Foundation board after an election process later http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-04-09/Election_leaks as a "disgrace" by Beesley. The election was marred by leaks, a "list of endorsement" by Möller, and controversial interventions by Jimmy Wales.

September 28th
The Guardian publishes Seth Finkelstein's article http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/sep/28/wikipedia.web20 which describes the journalist's problems dealing with his Wikipedia biography.

October
The Wikipedia biography of Don Murphy, co-producer of the Transformers movies, is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don_Murphy&diff=85793547&oldid=85724762 from fans of the series. Murphy is forced to remove the material himself using the pseudonym ColScott and other aliases, leading to his requests that his biography be removed from Wikipedia. The biography is retained by Wikipedians. Murphy's accounts are later banned by Wikipedia administrators, and thus he becomes forthright and active critic of Wikipedia.

October 3rd
Wikipedia Weekly is launched, first episode airs the week of October 16th.

October 4th
Jimmy Wales again blocks Wikipedia Review indefinitely, for "inappropriate use of Wikipedia name in commerce; implying that people can pay him to get listed in Wikipedia". (More info here)

October 17th
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Citizendium_Press_Releases/Oct172006 announcing the creation of Citizendium, a wiki based encyclopedia that requires real name verification to edit.

October 22nd
Jimmy Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-10-30/Board_reorganization as Chair of the Wikimedia board of Trustees to be replaced by Florence Devouard. The remaining official roles on the board were also filled at this time, with Tim Shell chosen as Vice-Chair, Erik Möller as Executive Secretary, and Michael E. Davis as Treasurer.

October 23rd
Arbitrator Fred Bauder http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/MONGO&diff=83168147&oldid=82560075 all the spellings of "Encyclopedia Dramatica" to "damatica" in other people's comments during the long MONGO Arbitration case over the 'BADSITES' issue as paranoia towards external sites gains strength.

October 26th
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/MONGO#Links_to_ED comes to a close, and sets a precedent for the 'BADSITES' disputes which dominate the site for two years. The decision allows for the removal of links to sites that host criticisms of Wikipedians, regardless of whether they were relevant or on internal project pages.

October 27th
Daniel Brandt launches the first http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/psamples.html in Wikipedia that has been undertaken, using a program he created to run a few sentences from about 12,000 articles against Google Inc.'s (GOOG) search engine. Brandt ended with a list of 142 articles, which he brought to Wikipedia's attention. The project gains http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,227747,00.html.

November 30th http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/03/jimbo_wales_rachel_marsden/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rachel_Marsden concerning biased editing on TV pundit Rachel Marsden's biography ends. Jimmy Wales is seen to intervene in the case. 'Somey' from Wikipedia Review http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=5196, "Maybe this could be the start of a beautiful relationship!"

December 4th
Angela Beesley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-12-11/WikiChix for use exclusively by female Wikipedia editors, called WikiChix. Due to the approved culture of secrecy and fake identities that dominates Wikipedia, the list inevitably becomes infiltrated by http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=23026&hl=wikichix.

December 7th
Wikimedia Foundation bylaws revised, Board http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-12-11/Board_expansionto include Kat Walsh, Oscar van Dillen and Jan-Bart de Vreede.

December 17th
Voting closes for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2006.

December 23rd
Jimmy Wales makes a passing comment regarding the possibility of a wiki-based internet search. The result is extensive media coverage publishing the statement as an announcement, forcing Wales's Wikia company to re-brand and relaunch its previous search engine proposal under the temporary name of "Search Wikia".

December 28
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Daniel_Brandt_(11th_nomination). Nominated by Majorly (T-C-L-K-R-D) . Consensus remains "Keep".

December 29th
Wales http://searchengineland.com/qa-with-jimmy-wales-on-search-wikia-10171 several issues regarding "Search Wikia". He says that funding received from Amazon.com is not specific to the search project and also restates that Wikia and Wikipedia have separate management, even though they shared three key stakeholders.

2007

January 1st
Wikipedia http://news.digitaltrends.com/news-article/12009/wikipedia-temporarily-bans-qatar.

January (early) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy)
'Essjay' is hired by Wikia.

January 7th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy)
Essjay posts autobiographical details on his user page at Wikia (not Wikipedia), giving his supposed real name (Ryan Jordan), age, and previous employment history from age 19, and his positions within various Wikimedia Foundation projects. These details differ sharply from previous assertions on 'Essjay's' Wikipedia user page about his academic and professional credentials.

January 18th
The Ottawa Citizen http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/technology/story.html?id=5016ff66-143d-43cc-98b9-140cc8259c19 of Wikipedia editor and arbitrator Simon Pulsifer, making light of the fact that he is unemployed and living with his parents.

January 20th
It is http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=6385&hl= that Professor Tim Pierce of Northern Illinois University had instructed students to vandalize Wikipedia to demonstrate how simple it is to change information on the site, before restoring the articles to their previous state. Pierce devised the test after he was "getting a lot of Wikipedia cites last semester where students were citing really dubious information from there". Wikipedia administrator Zoe (T-C-L-K-R-D) shoots off several angry emails to Pierce and the University's Office of Public Affairs claiming the act is a "federal offense" and threatens to go to the press to expose Pierce. The University replies that Zoe be "cautious about accusing individuals and public academic institutions of illegal actions" and advises that Wikipedia "consider making its website content more secure by assuring it cannot be changed by outsiders". Jimmy Wales dismisses Zoes' actions as "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=103767399#Response_from_Jimbo". Zoe http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Zoe&diff=prev&oldid=104886215.

Also January 20th
Jimmy Wales reverses a previous decision ignoring two polls to the contrary, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-01-22/Nofollow to all outward links on Wikipedia. Any site that used to be a destination from Wikipedia, and thus highly ranked, will abruptly fall in search engine rankings.http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jan/25/wikipedia.web20: "it turns Wikipedia into something of a black hole on the Net. It sucks up vast quantities of link energy but never releases any."

January 21st (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy)
Daniel Brandt http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=2778&view=findpost&p=21049 of the New Yorker article about discrepancies in 'Essjay's' biography. Brandt http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/gifs/usermess.png to explain himself on Wikipedia but receives no response.

January 23rd
Notorious Wikipedia administrator JzG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive72#User:JossBuckle_Swami a "community ban" to the already banned Gregory Kohs of Wikipedia Review for using multiple accounts.

January 24th
Microsoft employees http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/24/battleground-wikipedia/ that the company paid a blogger to edit certain Wikipedia pages relating to Open Office standards. According to one Microsoft employee, the step was taken to avoid Wikipedia's Conflict Of Interest policy, and because articles were previously "heavily written by people at IBM, a rival standard supporter, and that Microsoft had gotten nowhere flagging mistakes to Wikipedia’s volunteer editors."

also January 24th
Journalist Brian Bergstein http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/01/24/national/a120616S70.DTL Wikipedia Review founder Gregory Kohs on his travails with Wikipedia over paid editing.

January 28th
Wikimedia Foundationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-01-29/Advisory_board_named the creation of an Advisory board. The board includes Angela Beesley, wiki inventor Ward Cunningham, and pro-Wikipedia Tech journalist Clay Shirky.

January 29th
It is revealed that US courts are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-01-29/Court_citations in court cases.

February 5th
Several Wikipedia Arbitrators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-02-05/Arbitration_and_IRC warning against the growing power of Wikipedia's Internet Relay Chat channel for administrators. The private channel was set up by Jimmy Wales, and is inaccessible to non-administrators, some of whom accuse the channel of being a haven for organized retributions against other editors.

February 10th
Wikipedia editor 'Worldtraveller' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_failing "Wikipedia is Failing".

February 16th
Distinguished Turkish scholar Taner Akçam is http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-caught-in-the-deadly-web-of-the-internet-445561.html at the Montreal airport on the basis of false anonymous insertions in his Wikipedia biography. (see http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=8462&hl=)

February 22nd
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=6910 sues a Miami firm due to http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hothead2.html made on Wikipedia.

February 23rd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy)
Jimmy Wales announces the appointment of 'Essjay' to Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee (ArbCom). Wales http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-October/083549.html that the appointment was "at the request of and unanimous support of" ArbCom.

Also on February 23rd
The Daniel Brandt biography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-02-26/War_of_the_Wheels five more times, and undeleted six times in 24 hours. The article remains, but the editors are chastised by Jimmy Wales.

February 26th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy)
The New Yorker http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=2778&view=findpost&p=23768 for its July 31 issue. Jiimmy Wales is quoted on Essjay's false persona, “I regard it as a pseudonym and I don’t really have a problem with it.”

March 3rd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy)
After an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Essjay/RFC from Wikipedians, and much negative publicity in the major media, Wales asks Essjay to resign his "positions of trust". Essjay promptly retires from Wikipedia altogether and later resigns from his position at Wikia. In his initial apology, Essjay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-05/Essjay that New Yorker journalist Schiff had offered to pay him during his interview, which was flatly denied. Essjay also suggested that his false identity was designed to protect himself from Daniel Brandt, though it was created long before Brandt's involvement in Wikipedia.

March 7th
Jimmy Wales http://www.techspot.com/news/24573-wikipedia-to-clean-up-act-with-credential-verification.html to the media announcing that Wikipedians should only be allowed to cite some professional expertise in a subject if those credentials have been verified.

March 8th
Jimmy Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jimbo_Wales/Credential_Verification&diff=prev&oldid=113487197 a "Credentials Verification" policy.

March 8th
Jimmy Wales http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUST34811320070308 for Wikia's proposed search engine ("Search Wikia") to rival those of Google and Yahoo. According to Wales, "The idea that Google has some edge because they've got super-duper rocket scientists may be a little antiquated now."

March 12th
Jimmy Wales http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/technology/12wiki.html?ei=5088&en=668e67bbe72bf6c6&ex=1331352000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print that "some version of his [credentials verification] proposal would begin on the site in a week” in an article titled 'After False Claim, Wikipedia to Check Degrees'. The proposal is never implemented, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/Credential_Verification as "currently inactive" retained only for "historical reference".

March 16th
Wikipedia http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-03-16-wiki-sinbad_N.htm. Rumors begin circulating after the posting, and Sinbad first hears about it himself via a telephone call from his daughter.

March 19th
Cary Bass (Bastique (T-C-L-K-R-D) ) http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-March/028385.html by the Wikimedia Foundation as Volunteer Coordinator.

March 20th
Jimmy Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-20/News_and_notes the merger of three core Wikipedia policies into one (WP:ATT), stating that the merger is "a monumentally bad idea". The merger had been organized and pushed by editor SlimVirgin (T-C-L-K-R-D) causing significant controversy among editors.

March 22nd
Brad Patrick http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-March/028404.html Danny Wool also http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=7610as Wikimedia Foundation "grants coordinator" and resigns his roles on Wikipedia. Both Wool and Patrick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-03-26/Departures. (http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=7637)

March 23rd
Jimmy Wales unblocks Gregory Kohs of Wikipedia Review again saying "he asked nicely, i think the issue is completed". Wales was apparently unaware that Wikipedia Review had been "community banned" by notorious administrator JzG a few months earlier.

March 29th
Gregory Kohs of Wikipedia Review is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Archive80#Request_for_impartial_review_regarding_Zibiki_Wym for a variety of unclear reasons.

Also on March 29th
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=7817&pid=26407. http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/mugabe2.html#mugabe.

April 1st
Jimmy Wales is interviewed on TV by Ellen Fanning for Australia's Nine Network. Fanning points out a blatant falsehood in her Wikipedia biography, which leads Wales to http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-March/066949.html of "getting hammered" during the interview. Also during the discussion (http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/seigen.mp3), Wales calls the Seigenthaler defamation "amusing" and appears to blame the journalist for the controversy. Having heard the recorded interview, Seigenthaler http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=8388&view=findpost&p=29151 as "duplicitous", and concludes that "it all demonstrates again that Wikipedia is beset by flaw and fraud".

April 4th
Wikipedia Review http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=120787420#Is_Wikipediareview.com_an_acceptable_site_to_link_to.3F on a de facto Wikipedia blacklist. This means the site can't be linked to from any part of Wikipedia on pain of sanctions against any person who does so.

April 11th
Larry Sanger http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article1637535.ece in an interview with the press that Wikipedia is “broken beyond repair” and no longer reliable.

Also on April 11th
UK education secretary, Alan Johnson, http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/apr/11/news.politics from teaching unions after recommending the use of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia for schoolwork. According to the general secretary of the NASWUT union, the union itself had been the victim of scurrilous claims on Wikipedia, and she would not recommend the site to pupils.

April 13th
John Seigenthaler http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=8200&mode=linear at Florida State University. Seigenthaler details his experiences with Wikipedia, giving some 30 examples of defamation. According to Seigenthaler, "When I explained that it was speech protected by section 230 of the the CDA and that these defamers were hiding behind veils of anonymity and virtually untraceable IP numbers there was astonishment."

April 19th
Wales http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-April/069100.html.

April 27th
Internet figure Jason Scott http://www.archive.org/details/20070427-jscott-brickipedia to Notacon 4 in Cleveland, Ohio focusing on the negative exploitable nature of Wikipedia.

April 30th
Backlogs of tasks needing attention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-04-30/Backlogs, including the number of articles lacking any sources.

May 7th
Four administrator accounts with weak passwords http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-05-07/Admins_desysopped. The perpetrator(s) goes on a spree of adding erroneous content to articles, and banning other users. A fifth administrator also "goes rogue", and is discovered to be an account of a previously banned user who had created a new character and surreptitiously risen up the Wikipedia hierarchy for such a purpose.

May 15th
Citizendium, Larry Sanger's rival wiki project, http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,934.0.html NOINDEX tags on their project pages. This means that any defamatory statements made on talk pages are henceforth unable to be located by search engines. Wikipedia refused to do the same until pressure mounted two years later.

May 17th
Due to edits on Wikipedia, Google's entry description for Wikipedia's much viewed article on George Washington http://gpollard.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/google-loves-wikipedia-a-little-too-much/, “George Washington Had a shit on a stick and then told people that it was ok to have unprotected sex…”.

May 19th
More BADSITES. An attempt is made (but quickly reverted) to take off a link to Kelly Martin's blog on her user page because it contains criticisms of individual Wikipedians.

May 21st
The Wikipedia biography of co-founder Larry Sanger is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Larry_Sanger&diff=next&oldid=132043032 to "mid-importance" priority by Wikipedia's bureaucracy. This places his article below articles on Jimmy Wales (T-H-L-K-D), Wikimania (T-H-L-K-D) and even Wikipedia Review (T-H-L-K-D).

May 23rd
An editor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Gracenotes for adminship after admitting he thought it "unhelpful for editors to either add or remove links [to Wikipedia Review] merely to make a point". The opposition is orchestrated by administrator SlimVirgin. Her actions are described as an attempt to implement the controversial BADSITES ban on linking to critical sites "via the backdoor".

May 27th
Wikipedia editor Will Beback (T-C-L-K-R-D) http://www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/2007/05/oh_please_a_wik.html that all links to and mentions of Teresa Nielsen Hayden's blog Making Light be removed from Wikipedia as an "attack site" or 'BADSITE', after an entry in one of the site's forums criticises Wikipedia's treatment of science fiction writer Kathryn Cramer. An edit war ensues. Will Beback also demands that the criticisms on Making Light be removed before the links can be restored. Well known internet figure Cory Doctorow jumps to the defense of Making Light and Cramer stating, "You are a Wikipedia editor; this does not confer upon you the right to edit other peoples' websites, too."

June 1-3
Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/June_1-3,_2007. Sue Gardner and Mike Godwin are visitors, and the decision is made to hire the pair.

June 4th
Disputes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-06-04/BLP,_revisited over "single-incident biographies" and their relationship to the policy of Biographies of Living People.

June 5th
Writer Andrew Keen releases the book "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cult_of_the_Amateur", a critique of the enthusiasm surrounding user generated content, peer production, and other Web 2.0-related phenomena including Wikipedia.

June 7th
More BADSITES incidents. An edit war attempts (unsuccessfully) to remove links to Wikitruth from the article about the site.

June 14th
Daniel Brandt biography is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Daniel_Brandt_(14th_nomination)&diff=138037189&oldid=138034551 on the 14th attempt. It is not recreated. Seth Finkelstein, who wrote "http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/sep/28/wikipedia.web20" argues successfully to see his biography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Seth_Finkelstein_(2nd).

June 15th
Various links to Conservapedia within the Wikipedia article are redacted on the basis of BADSITES.

June 25th
A statement is added to the biography of Pro-Wrestler Chris Benoit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Benoit_double_murder_and_suicide, fourteen hours before police discovered the bodies of Benoit and his family.

June 26th
The media http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/91733 that the German government plan to improve entries to the German Wikipedia, via the private-sector Nova Institute.

July 3rd
Wikimedia Foundation http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-July/031128.html Mike Godwin as the new General Counsel and Legal Coordinator.

July 6th
Register journalist http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080423/meet-the-metz-ten-of-the-best-from-the-register/ writes his http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/06/wikipedia_otrs_volunteers/ exposing Wikipedia's combative subculture.

July 9th
Florence Devouard, chairwoman of the Wikipedia Foundation, http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1012991/one-day-ill-be-more-proud-of-wikipedia-than-my-kids, "It's possible one day I'll be more proud of Wikipedia than of the kids."

July 12th
Wikimedia Board of Trustees incumbents Erik Möller (Eloquence) and Kathleen Walsh (Mindspillage) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-07-16/Board_elections for a two-year term, with Frieda Brioschi (Frieda) narrowly edging out incumbent Oscar van Dillen (Oscar) for the third and final seat.

July 26th
Ludwig De Braeckeleer http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?no=374006&rel_no=1 on administrator SlimVirgin. The article features Daniel Brandt's assertion that SlimVirgin (who started the Wikipedia biography of Brandt) the user name of a former ABC News Reporter thought to be embroiled in the investigation the Lockerbie Pan-Am terrorist attack of 1987. The article is picked up by Slashdot and other sites, and SlimVirgin http://www.conservapedia.com/Linda_Mack as a "Spy infiltrating Wikipedia".

August 14th
Episode 2 of Richard Dawkins's Enemies of Reason TV series http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=11665. In the documentary, Dawkins gives a grave critique of the erosion of evidence based thinking in front a scrolling screen of Wikipedia pages. According to Dawkins, "Wikipedia world creates great opportunity and great danger."

August 17th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiScanner. This is a tool created by Virgil Griffith which consists of a publicly searchable database that links millions of anonymous Wikipedia IP edits to the organizations where those edits apparently originated.

August 20th
Due to the newly launched Wikiscanner, the media begin to highlight edits made from many leading organizations causing "minor public relations disasters". The inhouse Wikipedia magazine Signpost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-08-20/WikiScanner; "Durova, who works extensively with sleuthing 'the dark side' of Wikipedia, has implied that many more major stories await tech-savvy reporters who know how to comb Wikipedia's logs efficiently. The next generation of Wikipedia manipulation stories may be more than just 'minor public relations disasters'."

August 24th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/)
A link to Judd Bagley's antisocialmedia.net http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=153462971&oldid=153462788 per BADSITES where it was being used to display evidence of sockpuppetry. After some edit-warring, it was replaced by a link to a page at another URL that copied the relevant information.

Links to Michael Moore's official site http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Moore&diff=153555484&oldid=153476201 and edit warred over per BADSITES, because the site contains criticisms of Wikipedia editor Ted Frank.

September 4th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/)
Spokesperson for Wikimedia UK David Gerard http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=155722944#Overstock.com.2FWordBomb.2FJudd_Bagley in Utah to prevent Judd Bagley making his case on Wikipedia against account abuse by Mantanmoreland. Later he http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:David_Gerard&diff=prev&oldid=157139762 "ps. fuck off Bagley". Gerard also http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&page=User:86.131.103.166 the IP address of ahttp://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=12847&st=0&p=50109&#entry50109 as an "apparent open proxy being abused by Judd Bagley".

Also on September 4th
In who would become one of the most notorious vandals on Wikipedia, Grawp, previously JarlaxleArtemis, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=HAGGGER%3F on this day. Due to his antics, he would later be responsible for http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Grawp#Grawp.E2.80.99s_Legacy being employed on Wikipedia.

September 9th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/)
Controversial administrator JzG adds Judd Bagley's antisocialmedia.net to the English Wikipedia spam blacklist "http://www.nabble.com/Spam-blacklist-and-BADSITES-to12581477.html.

September 12th
Wikipedia arbitrator Fred Bauder admits "There has been extensive discussion [about the spam blacklist addition], although not in a public forum. We have had enough of Judd Bagley and his site." and "The group who discussed this included the arbitration committee, the staff of Foundation, and SlimVirgin and others who have from time to time been victims of harassment or stalking. We listened particularly to the advice of those who have have been harassed."

Fred Bauder, controversial administrators SlimVirgin, JzG, Durova and others create a secret "http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wpcyberstalking" on Wikia to discuss matters. Included on the list are Mantanmoreland and at least one of his sockpuppets. The list is administrated by SlimVirgin.

September 23rd
During a heated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Attack_sites at Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee, founder of the committee Fred Bauder http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Attack_sites/Proposed_decision&diff=prev&oldid=159861452 to redirect biographies of people who maintain "external sites" which criticize Wikipedians to the article "Clown".

September 19th
Jimmy Wales's tiny (misspelled) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mzoli's&diff=158512139&oldid=158511192 on Mzoli's Meats, a South African restaurant and gathering place http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mzoli's_Meats&oldid=159502287 per process as 'non-notable'. Wales complains bitterly, and the article is restored by Wales's supporters. Debate http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-ca-webscout30sep30,1,1815602.story?coll=la-headlines-technology about favortism and Wales's influence over the site. (http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=12893&hl=Mzoli's+Meats)

October 8th
Jimmy Wales http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globecampus/article787222.ece that he gets about 10 emails a week from "students who end up in trouble because they cited the online encyclopedia in a paper and the information turned out to be wrong", but he has little sympathy for them.

October 12th
A link to a Slate Magazine article http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:No_personal_attacks&diff=next&oldid=164127029 per BADSITES, because it contains an interview with Daniel Brandt.

October 20th(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/)
Durova blocks the respected editor Cla68 for making an uncontroversial edit to the biography of Gary Weiss. Jimmy Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Gary_Weiss&diff=prev&oldid=165916446, writing: "Durova and Guy have my full support here. No nonsense, zero tolerance, shoot on sight. No kidding, this has gone on long enough"

November 1st
Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-11-05/French_lawsuit brought by three people over defamation on the French Wikipedia. According to the plaintiffs, they had contacted the foundation to complain. But no record of their complaint could be found.

November 3rd - November 10th
A secret "http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wpinvestigations-l" is created by prominent controversial Wikipedia administrators including Durova "to separate discussions about general sockpuppetry from the cyberstalking list".

November 18th
Wikipedia editor !! (T-C-L-K-R-D) is temporarily blocked by Durova based on secret evidence. The incident is later nicknamed the "Durova Dustup." http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=14011 When asked about the block, Durova states that it cannot be discussed in public. The Wikipedia editor turns out to be an innocent new account of a former respected editor.

November 21st
A New Jersey Middle School http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2004025648_wikipedia21.html of "Just Say No to Wikipedia" by putting signs over the computers in the school library. Apparently, teachers and students at the school found at least two cases of incorrect information while using Wikipedia, and white supremacist information in the entry for Martin Luther King.

November 22nd
A leak from the secret "Investigations email list" http://wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Durova's_Sekret_Evidence. The leak contains Durova's incorrect rationale for the block of User:!!, and exposes the methods a clique of administrators were using to control other editors. Durova's "evidence" contains various fantastical claims about Wikipedia Review tactics based on evidence of the behavior of innocent users who were not even members of Wikipedia Review at the time.

Wikipedia is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Durova/Evidenceover the revelations.

November 28th
Sue Gardner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-12-03/Gardner_interview as Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation.

December 4th
The Register publishes the article "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/wikipedia_secret_mailing/" which describes the Durova / Secret list scandal. The story hits the international news. http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=14314

December 5th
Alex Roshuk, the lawyer who assisted Jimmy Wales in writing the Wikimedia Foundation's bylaws and in setting up the Foundation as a 501-c (3) organization, http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=14346&hl=Roshuk Wales as "flaky" and someone who "does not keep his word".

December 6th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/)
The Register publishes the article http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/06/wikipedia_and_overstock/ which covers Wikipedia's Naked Short Selling controversy. The piece includes interviews with Judd Bagley, and describes the blanket bans of Overstock.com affiliated accounts, as well as anyone who supports their point of view in the controversy.

December 7th
According to the BBC, Jimmy Wales http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7130325.stm who refused students access to Wikipedia as "bad educators" in a speech in London.

December 8th
Florence Devouard, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=14576, "I can not help thinking that the rather ugly atmosphere that developped[sic] on enwiki is largely due to the very large and uncontrolled use of the checkuser tool by a minority."

December 9th
The Guardian publishes an article by Jenny Kleeman based on statements by arbitrator Charles Matthews (T-C-L-K-R-D) which claims that Carl Hewitt, associate professor emeritus in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "disrupted Wikipedia". Hewitt later http://knol.google.com/k/carl-hewitt-see-httpcarlhewittinfo/corruption-of-wikipedia/pcxtp4rx7g1t/5# and other critics accuse Matthews of breaking confidentiality. Matthews is also accused of "creating the news" by contacting Kleeman himself with stories about Hewitt's editing. Matthews had previously been interviewed by Kleeman and the journalist had become an informal press contact.

December 11th
Jimbo Wales http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071231/mr-wales-goes-to-washington/. Before his testimony, he http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Lieberman&diff=next&oldid=177205787 and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joe_Lieberman&diff=next&oldid=177205876 after the hearing was over. The article is immediately hit by defamatory statements after unprotection.

December 13th
The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/wikimedia_coo_convicted_felon/ that Carolyn Doran, Chief Operating Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, is a convicted felon for shooting a former boyfriend, and was still on parole for another offense. See http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20071220/carolyn-doran-timeline-of-events/.

December 16th
Voting closes for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2007. The elected winners include Newyorkbrad (T-C-L-K-R-D) , FT2 (T-C-L-K-R-D) , and Sam Blacketer (T-C-L-K-R-D) . Though new arbitrators are expected to provide personal details to the Wikimedia Foundation, the identities of the new arbitrators remain a mystery to the wider community and outsiders.

December 17th
Erik Möller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-12-17/Möller_move from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, and is named the Deputy Director of the Foundation.

December 26th
Wikipedia editor David Shankbone http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/937991.html at the invitation of the Israeli Foreign Ministry in the hope of reversing a "one-dimensional view of Israel".

2008

January
Wikipedia http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301440,00.html from St. Petersburg to a http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=12363 in San Fransisco. http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=12948.

January 6th
Jimmy Wales http://lists.wikia.com/pipermail/search-l/2008-January/000978.html Seth Finkelstein, "Seth, you're an idiot." Seth had http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001299.html of the about-to-be launched Wikia Search.

January 7th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikia_Search launched by Jimmy Wales. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=11754, "I don't know how long it will take to reach industry-standard quality search results, but I'd say at least two years."

January 22nd
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=15438 - Thread about an inappropriate wiki site hosted by Wikia, later shut down due to outcry about the content hosted.

January 25th
Danny Wool's http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/01/beginnings.html, All's Wool that End's Wool.

February 6th
The Register publishes the story http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/06/the_cult_of_wikipedia/ which covers the conflict of interest of prominent editor Jossi Fresco. Fresco, the creator of the Conflict of Interest Noticeboard, has been involved in a cult-like organisation and engaged in edits relating to that organisation that violate conflict of interest rules. The story comes directly from http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=15240&hl.

February 7th
Notorious administrator User:JzG http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rachel_Marsden&diff=next&oldid=189783275 to the biography of Rachel Marsden.

February 13th
Two major encyclopedias, the German Brockhaus and the French Quid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-02-25/Print_encyclopedias citing Wikipedia as the reason for falling sales.

February 14th
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=15878 Notorious administrator JoshuaZ is discovered to have been using several accounts to stack up votes against biographical subjects who wished to see their articles deleted.

February 17th
Emerald Group http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=6D46A9381C4560FE3E2565C7FDBD8A83?contentType=Article&contentId=1674221 revealing inaccuracies in eight of nine Wikipedia articles examined, and major flaws in at least two of the nine Wikipedia entries. Overall, Wikipedia's accuracy rate was 80 percent compared with 95-96 percent accuracy within other encyclopedia sources.

February 29th
Valleywag http://valleywag.gawker.com/362374/wikipedia-founders-fling-with-fox-news-fox that Jimmy Wales has been having a relationship with Fox TV reporter Rachel Marsden. Wales intervened in her Wikipedia biography back in 2006, as was noted by Wikipedia Review, and the intervention reportedly led to an in-person meeting. Valleywag also http://valleywag.gawker.com/362564/transcripts-of-wikipedia-founders-sex-chats "transcripts of Wikipedia founder's sex chats" with Marsden. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-03-03/Wales'_relationship_with_journalist)

March 1st
Former Wikimedia Foundation employee Danny Wool http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/03/money-for-nothing-chicks-for-free.html that Jimmy Wales used to boast about several affairs extra-marital affairs during his time at the organization. Wool also alleges that Wales "was certainly not frugal in his spending on his endless trips abroad" and that Wales was "careless" with his receipts while using money donated to the Foundation in good faith. Wool also alleges that Wales spent donation money on a massage parlour in Moscow, spent $650 of donors cash on two bottles of wine, and thought he needed a limousine "because I am like a rockstar too." Associated Press http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/05/jimmy_wales_and_danny_wool/page2.html that WMF Chair Florence Devouard castigated Wales, "I find (it) tiring to see how you are constantly trying to rewrite the past. Get a grip!"

Valleywag http://valleywag.gawker.com/362511/how-wikipedia-got-jimmy-wales-laid of the Wales / Marden affair. According to Valleywag, Wales "sent a mass email to a 'special' Wikipedia list of admins at the beginning of February" ordering that Rachel Marsden's article be cleaned up right before he was set to spend the weekend with Marsden in Washington DC.

Jimmy Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Statement,_March_1st,_2008&diff=prev&oldid=195246705 on Wikipedia announcing, "I am no longer involved with Rachel Marsden".

March 2nd
Rachel Marden http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3475722.ece in apparent revenge for Wales's announcement on Wikipedia the previous day.

Rachel Marsden http://valleywag.gawker.com/362814/the-goodbye-email-from-jimmy-waless-girlfriend more private chats between herself and Jimmy Wales to Vallewag. The chats suggest that Wales violated Wikipedia's rules to encourage favorable changes to Marsden's Wikipedia profile.

March 4th
Jimmy Waleshttp://fora.tv/2008/02/28/Jimmy_Wales_and_Andrew_Keen_Debate_Web_2_0 at the Commonwealth Club, which is broadcast on ForaTV.

Started by Privatemusings, the first episode of 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikivoices' is launched (later renamed to Wikivoices in November of 2008).

March 5th
The http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/05/BUVFVDM3H.DTL both Jimmy Wales's Rachel Marsden debacle, and the allegations from Danny Wool that Wales misused money donated to the Wikimedia Foundation.

March 22nd
Jimmy Wales is http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=16892 with Richard Branson and Tony Blair.

March 23rd
Rachel Marsden, using the alias 'Bramlet Abercrombie', http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=200307525&oldid=200307410 on Jimmy Wales's Wikipedia talk page. She writes, "You couldn't have cared less about my Wikipedia entry until we started sleeping together, Jimmy."

March 24th
Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-03-24/News_and_notes that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have awarded a grant of US$1,000,000 yearly for the next three years, for a $3 million total grant.

April 4th
Weekly podcast show NotTheWikipediaWeekly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikivoices/Episode_06 with Wikipedia Reviewers Judd Bagley, Gregory Kohs, Barry Kort (Moulton) and site chieftain 'Somey'.

April 7th
Release of the documentary http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20080409/the-truth-according-to-wikipedia/ which interviews supporters and critics including Larry Sanger and Andrew Keen.

April 14th
A professor of information systems at Deakins University http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/04/14/wikipedia-breeds-unwitting-trust-says-it-professor that Wikipedia is "fostering a climate of blind trust among people seeking information". She also criticises the unaccountability of Wikipedia and the creation of a "new and anonymous elite".

April 19th
A student in California http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-04-21/SPV#Threat_made_against_high_school_on_Wikipedia.2C_student_arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats against students via the Wikipedia article on his school.

April 21st
A series of emails by members and associates of the pro-Israel group CAMERA http://uruknet.info/?p=m43258&s1=h1. The emails detail a concerted effort to manipulate Wikipedia content.

April 29th
Arbitrator NewYorkBrad http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Newyorkbrad&diff=208995473&oldid=208930545 after his real life identity is revealed by Daniel Brandt on Hivemind. Jimmy Wales writes; "I consider it a tragedy when trolls drive good people away from charity work by engaging in underhanded personal attacks." Brad returned shortly after, and was http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=24770&hl using his real name a year later.

May 2nd
Literary agent Barbara Bauer http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/legal/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207500346 the Wikimedia Foundation in the New Jersey Superior Court claiming that the Wikimedia Foundation is liable for malicious additions to her biography in 2006. The judge http://m.app.com/news.jsp?key=81411 the case in July 2008 citing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) which protects sites from the actions of their users.

May 5th
Valleywag run a story on Erik Möller, the deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation titledhttp://valleywag.gawker.com/372140/erik-mller-no-2-at-wikipedia-a-defender-of-pedophilia

May 6th
Valleywag run a follow up story on Erik Möller, the deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation titled, http://valleywag.gawker.com/387735/wikipedia-leader-erik-mller-children-are-pornography.

May 6th
WorldNetDaily publish the article http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63590 which asks why Wikipedia hosts pictures of "nude homosexual men engaging in sex acts and a variety of other sexually explicit images and content." The article also brings first attention to the Scorpion's Virgin Killer album cover which is hosted on Wikipedia. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/brit_isps_censor_wikipedia/)

May 12th
Flagged revisions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-05-12/SPV#Sighted_revisions_introduced_on_the_German_Wikipedia to the German Wikipedia.

May 16th
Mike Godwin, legal council to the WMF, instructs WikiNews to remove a story covering allegations of pornography in Wikipedia, which also referenced the Erik Möller episode. Godwin http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/05/all-news-thats-fit-to-censor.html "some kind of process in which initial versions of news stories are vetted before they're made publicly available for further editing." This is in stark contrast to Wikipedia policies regarding Biographies of Living People.

May 28th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/)
'Mantanmoreland' is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=215595512#Mantanmoreland_and_Bassettcat from Wikipedia after an investigation into abuse of multiple accounts.

June 2nd
Wikipedia critic Andrew Keen and disaffected co-founder Larry Sanger http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/andrew-keen-on-new-media-837997.html that "the internet is the future of knowledge" at Oxford University.

June 21st
Wikipedia http://news.scotsman.com/education/Falling-exam--passes-blamed.4209408.jp for falling standards in Scottish education by The Scottish Parent Teacher Council.

June 12th
The biography of NBC Journalist Tim Russert http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/5/nbc-scooped-on-tim-russert-death-by-wikipedia-twitter-nyt-et-al-and-wikipedia-updater-fired, before his family had discovered the details. This was against the wishes of NBC who had held off reporting the news for two hours so his family wouldn't hear about it first from the media.

July 17th
Michael Snow replaces Florence Nibart-Devouard as chair of the Wikimedia Foundation board.

July 23rd
Google Knol http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/knol-is-open-to-everyone.html.

August 9th
Wikimedia Foundation Counsel Mike Godwin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-08-09/SPV#Anthrax_suspect_reportedly_edit-warred_on_Wikipedia that Bruce Ivins, a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, was a http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=19710&hl=Jimmyflathead and that the Foundation had been subject to a subpoena regarding the case. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/07/jimmy_wales_and_jimmyflathead/ published on August 7th.

August 1st
News breaks of http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=19710&hl=Jimmyflathead Wikipedia edits under the account name Jimmyflathead. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/07/jimmy_wales_and_jimmyflathead/ published a week later.

August 24th
Opinion columnist Steve Cuozzo http://www.nypost.com/seven/08242008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/urban_myths_125773.htm Wikipedia's New York City coverage, pointing to mistakes in a number of articles, and calls Wikipedia "the engine of ignorance".

August 31st
A Wikipedia user called Young Trigg http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/01/technology/01link.html?_r=1&ref=politics to Sarah Palin's article shortly before the announcement of her nomination as the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate.

September 8th
Wikimedia UK is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-09-08/SPV#Wikimedia_UK_disbands.2C_but_may_form_again by UK Chair Alison Wheeler due to lack of interest and "problems with respect to their relationship with the Wikimedia Foundation"

October 5th
http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20081005/wikipedia-vandalism-study-us-senators/. Gregory Kohs and Wikipedia Review members methodically catalogue one calendar quarter’s worth of pernicious edits to the 100 WP biographies about the (then) current United States Senators. This is an effort to highlight Wikipedia's lax standards while hosting prominent biographies.

November 10th
New York Times journalist David Rohde is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_David_Rohde. The Times requests a news blackout, which is observed by over 40 news outlets, and approaches Jimmy Wales for assistance to keep the news out of Wikipedia. Wales allocates the task of preventing coverage on WP to a small group of "trusted administrators". Reports of the kidnapping added to Wikipedia are removed by administrators. Times journalist Michael Moss re-edits Rhode's biography to make the subject seem more sympathetic to Muslims.

November 12th
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=21101&view=findpost&p=141162 on Wikipedia Review regarding the identity of British based elected Arbitrator 'Sam Blacketer'. Arbitrators are expected to verify their identities with the Wikimedia Foundation.

November 13th
A German politician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2008-11-17/Wikimedia_Deutschland_case a court order blocking the German Wikipedia after malicious false allegations were added to his biography.

December 5th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/brit_isps_censor_wikipedia/)
The UK Internet Watch Foundation blacklist a Wikipedia image page showing the cover art of The Scorpions' 1976 album Virgin Killer, due to the presence of a potentially illegal photograph of a naked minor. The measure followed complaints from the public. UK internet providers, who automatically act on the blacklist, fed their traffic to Wikipedia through a small number of proxy servers. When Wikipedia admins blocked IP addresses on other pages (as is routine), the action temporarily prevented all unlogged-in editors using those ISPs from editing any page of Wikipedia.

December 9th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/brit_isps_censor_wikipedia/)
The Internet Watch Foundation http://www.iwf.org.uk/media/news.archive-2008.251.htm of the Virgin Killer image.

December 10th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/brit_isps_censor_wikipedia/)
Wikimedia UK press spokesperson David Gerard http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2008/12/10/what-a-pip/ in his blog, "a small amount of gleeful dancing on the skulls of the IWF today."

December 14th
Voting closes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2008. The elected winners include Cool Hand Luke (T-C-L-K-R-D) who revealed himself shortly before voting began to be http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=4284, a long time member of Wikipedia Review.

2009
January
Wikia relaunches a question-and-answer site called answers.wikia.com, which Wikia informally calls Wikianswers. Unfortunately, there is already another successful site called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiAnswers that has no affiliation to Wikia or to any Jimmy Wales project. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/12/wiki-answers-wikia in the media.

January 2nd
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flagged_revisions/Trial/Votes to agree a trial of "flagged revisions". Flagged revisions, which have proved successful on the German Wikipedia, would mean edits would be checked before being published. The proposal would significantly combat Wikipedia's defamatory biographies problem. Supporters include Jimmy Wales. The result is 59.6% in support, 39.2% in opposition, 1.2% neutral.

January 3rd
New statistics on editing frequency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-01-03/Editing_stats the size of the active editing community of the English Wikipedia peaked in early 2007 and is in decline.

January 4th
A New Scientist article http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16349-psychologist-finds-wikipedians-grumpy-and-closedminded.html?DCMP=OTC-rss which discovered that although Wikipedia is founded on the notion of openly sharing and collecting knowledge as a community, editors scored low on agreeableness and openness.

January 12th
The Times newspaper publishes their '50 best young footballers' list which includes a player that doesn't exist. At number 30 on the list came 'Masal Bugduv', who was http://www.badidea.co.uk/2009/01/the-times-score-own-goal-thanks-to-wikipedia-journalism/.

January 14th
The Wikimedia Foundation http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/14/macnamee_joinds_wikiboard/ of venture capitalist Roger McNamee to the board of advisors.

January 21st
Wikimedia Foundation http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/01/21/a-note-on-the-wikipedia-usability-initiative/ that Wikia has agreed to sublease two of their conference rooms to them, having "matched the best offer". This http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=22559&view=findpost&p=153005 that the two unaffiliated organizations may be self-dealing (which is strictly prohibited), and gives another example of the http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?act=ST&f=19&t=15648&st=0#entry77398 between them.

January 21st
The Washington Post http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/01/kennedy_the_latest_victim_of_w.html?hpid=topnews that after Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd were both rushed away from Barack Obama's post-inaugural luncheon due to ill-health, their Wikipedia biographies were altered to read that they had died.

Jimmy Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&oldid=268883786#Why_I_am_asking_Flagged_Revisions_to_be_turned_on_now to turn on Flagged Revisions on the English Wikipedia on his "personal recommendation". Wales cites the Kennedy / Byrd incident. http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=23166.

January 27th
A 25 year old Wikipedia administrator http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=22617&st=0. The tragedy occurs after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Cumulus_Clouds between Wikipedia users.

January 30th
Sedate BBC TV celebrity Alan Titchmarsh is http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1131402/Alan-Titchmarsh-insists-hes-sex-guru-web-pranksters-sabotage-Wikipedia-entry.html claims he is a "sex guru" after his Wikipedia biography claimed he had penned an update to the Kama sutra.

February 3rd
The Independent newspaper publish the article "http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/is-wikipedia-cracking-up-1543527.html". The article describes erroneous edits made to the biography of Bruce Springsteen.

February 5th
Final posting to http://wikitruth.info. The site remains viewable but updates have been closed.

February 11th
A false fact http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/2211220&from=rss of German politician Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is regurgitated by the mainstream media. When editors on the German Wikipedia attempt to remove the falsehood, it is restored on the basis that the "fact" is cited by reliable sources.

February 15th
http://akahele.org/ launched by Wikipedia Review members Greg Kohs, Judd Bagley, Paul Wehage and Anthony DiPierro.

February 17th
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/02/wikipedia-googl.html is cached by Google which shows "NIGGA NIGGA NIGGA" on all http://wikipediareview.com/blog/20090218/what-more-needs-to-be-said/.

February 28th
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/founder is http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=gblrights&user=&page=Special%3AGlobalUsers%2Ffounder&year=&month=-1 project-wide.

March 15th
Wikipedia http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=23363 that US TV News anchor Tom Brokaw had an affair with ABC's Diane Sawyer. The New York Daily News who ran the story describes the site as "wacky-pedia".

March 17th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_filter. Prodego pens the first filter to block page moves to "HAGGER". Two days later, NawlinWiki lends credibility to a concern raised a few weeks earlier by enabling a poorly-written filter that de-autoconfirms over 200 innocent users.

Also on March 17th
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=25209.

March 18th (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/brit_isps_censor_wikipedia/)
The UK http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/news/249605/iwf-staff-threatened-after-wikipedia-debacle.html that some of its members have received "threats to their safety" from activists after the organization acted on complaints that Wikipedia was hosting an illegal image by displaying the Virgin Killer album cover.

March 20th
British academics are "astonished" after English Heritage http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3136686&c=2 as part of its evidence to the government on a key listing case.

March 23rd
The Wikimedia Foundation complains that the Wikipedia Art website may be violating trademark law by its use of “Wikipedia” in the domain name. http://akahele.org/2009/03/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/ is "an art intervention which explicitly invites performative utterances in order to change the work itself. The ongoing composition and performance of Wikipedia Art is intended to point to the ‘invisible authors and authorities’ of Wikipedia, and by extension the Internet,[2] as well as the site’s extant criticisms: bias, consensus over credentials, reliability and accuracy, vandalism, etc…"

March 28th
Shane Fitzgerald, an Irish student, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/04/journalism-obituaries-shane-fitzgerald entry to the biography of Maurice Jarre is picked up by the international media and published in obituaries to the composer as fact.

March 29th
Microsoft http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/30/microsoft_kills_msn_encarta/ on its MSN Encarta encyclopedia websites and software, following Wikipedia's obliteration of the online reference market.

March 31st
Jimmy Wales "http://blog.jimmywales.com/2009/03/31/update-on-wikia/" on Wikia Search. The site is permanently taken offline.

April 1st
Wikipedia's biography on Russian human rights campaigner Lev Ponomarev http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2009/04/a_death_foretold_on_wikipedia.htm before news reports described a near fatal attack on the same man.

April 8th
Co-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=282571512&oldid=282556927 a blistering "open letter" to Jimmy Wales on his Wikipedia talk page after Wales gave a press interview discussing his role at the site. According to Sanger, "The lies and distortions it contains are, for me, the last straw". Wales http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=282581543&oldid=282581289 the letter. Wales also http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=next&oldid=282595439, and a post which linked to the same letter hosted externally. Sanger's posts were also removed several times by Wikipedia editor David Shankbone (T-C-L-K-R-D) . Wikipedia critic Seth Finkelstein http://www.sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001424.html

April 24th
A New Jersey appeals court http://www.staugustine.com/stories/042409/nation_042409_039.shtml after it is discovered that attorneys in New Jersey used facts gleaned from Wikipedia to prevail during a case in 2008. The appeals court statement read, "A Wikipedia page doesn't meet the legal requirement as a "source whose accuracy cannot be reasonably questioned."

May 12th
Jayjg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-05-25/Arbitration_report

May 21st
Former Dallas County judge and prosecutor Catherine Crier http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/05/catherine_crier_takes_a_dallas.php against a thus-far unknown editor who posted malicious edits to her Wikipedia biography. Falsehoods included claims she was a "murder suspect, a shoplifter, she's served jail time, she's been disbarred".

May 26th
'Sam Blacketer' resigns from the Arbitration Committee. The elected arbitrator http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=21101&st=0&p=141162&#entry141162, who edited the site previously as User:Dbiv (name changed to User:Fys in 2006). Boothroyd was reprimanded under his previous account name and had his administrative rights removed in 2006. He made no mention of this dalliance as he rose up the ranks under his new pseudonym of Blacketer in 2007. The http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/26/wikipedia_westminster_councillor/ as an elected Labour Party councillor at London's Westminster Council, highlighting pseudonymous edits he made to the biography of a rival political Party Leader.

June 1st
Wikipedia Arbitration http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/05/business/fi-wikipedia-scientology5. The story, and the Arbitration committee are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-06-08/In_the_news on the Colbert Report.

June 21st
New York Times http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/08/wikipedia-censorship-seth-finkelstein initiated in November 2008 after the return of kidnapped journalist David Rohde. The blackout extended to Wikipedia, through correspondence with Jimmy Wales.

June 23rd
Wikipedia critic Gregory Kohs of Wikipedia Review is unblocked from Wikipedia again. Despite being blocked continuously from July 20, 2007 until June 23, 2009, The kohser maintained an active talk page. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Thekohser&oldid=248422883 during its zenith.

July 8th
Political consultant Mark Grebner http://michiganmessenger.com/22336/grebner-files-libel-suit-over-wikipedia-edits against three Wikipedia editors for adding "false and libelous" material into his biography.

July 10th
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=25249 over the use of its images.

August 25th
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/25/financial/f144330D89.DTL $2 million to Wikipedia. It is also announced that Matt Halprin, a partner at Omidyar Network, is appointed to Wikimedia's board of trustees. http://akahele.org/2009/08/omidyar-venturing-out/.

November 29th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard#David_Gerard http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=27610.

December 4th
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=27677 against an individual over vandalism to his Wikipedia entry. http://akahele.org/2009/12/ron-livingston-battles-phantom-defendant/

December 16th
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2009. The elected winners include Wikipedia Review regulars Steve Smith (T-C-L-K-R-D) (SarcasticIdealist) and SirFozzie (T-C-L-K-R-D) . This is the first Arbcom election to use secret ballots.

2010
January 19th
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=28263 occurs. http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=28786.

January 28th
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=28361&hl=rothschild exposed.

February 16th
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=28549.

March 2nd
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=28741. A look into how a BLP hoax with Seigenthaler-like content makes it onto the DYK section, receiving some 4300 page views. http://onwikipedia.blogspot.com/2010/03/dr-handel-or-how-i-learned-to-stop.html, http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/june2010/features/deconstructing_wikipedia/5.html.

April 27th
Co-founder Larry Sanger informs the FBI that http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=29374. The events are informally dubbed "Wikiporngate." Further commentary and links here: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=29211, http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=29458, http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=29470, http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=29506.