Wikitravel:Milestones

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Wikitravel is a growing concern -- as a project and as a travel guide. This page is for recording some milestones in Wikitravel's history (or future), and for setting up some milestones along the way of where we want to go. It's for gauging our progress, looking forward and looking back.

Figures below refer only to the English version of Wikitravel. See Multilingual statistics to track totals across all language versions.

	wikitravel milestones Travel Guide : 1 Web site 2 Articles 3 Users 4 Usefulness 5 Popularity

Web site

Domain name registered 

February 19, 2003

MediaWiki software installed and operational 

July 24, 2003

First major crash

Database crashed February 20, 2004

Articles

First article 

Main Page, July 24, 2003

100th article 

 ? (sometime in early August, 2003)

1,000th article 

North Dakota, January 16, 2004

5,000th article

Suzdal, August 3, 2005

10,000th article 

 ?

Last CIA World Factbook 2002 disclaimer removed from a country article

 ?

Users

First user 

July 24, 2003

100th user 

November 7, 2003

500th user 

April 15th, 2004

1000th user 

November 4th, 2004

10,000th user 

 ?

First banned IP 

User_talk:205.200.236.19 on March 17th, 2005, for inexplicable massive vandalism on three separate occasions

First banned user 

 ?

Usefulness

First report of someone using Wikitravel artics) for travel 

Talk:Taiwan#Thanx for the guide, Received September 23rd, 2004

First report of someone using Wikitravel artics) exclusively for travel 

 ?

First paper publication of a Wikitravel article 

 ?

First inclusion of Wikitravel content in a paper travel guide 

 ?

First travel guide with only Wikitravel content 

 ?

First violation of the Wikitravel copyleft 

Detected March 29th, 2004, see Wikitravel talk:Non-compliant redistribution

First #1 Google hit 

Apo Kayan, See 1 (http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22apo+kayan%22&btnG=Zoeken&meta=), Detected April 21st, 2004

Popularity

First blog entry about Wikitravel 

Logical Disconnect (http://logicaldisconnect.org/archives/2003/08/15/potentially-useful/), August 15, 2003

First Slashdot article mentioning Wikitravel 

Wikipedia Criticised by Its Co-founder (http://slashdot.org/articles/05/01/03/144207.shtml), January 5, 2005 (indirect reference)

First mainstream press article about Wikitravel 

The Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/biz/2003/09/15/stories/2003091500030200.htm) ("India's National Paper"), September 15, 2003

First external Web site about Wikitravel (e.g., "ihatewikitravel.org") 

 ?

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