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French Wikipedia

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URL	http://fr.wikipedia.org/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	French
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Launched	23 March 2001

The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia francophone, Wikipédia en français) is the French language edition of Wikipedia, spelled Wikipédia. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it An internet encyclopedia project is a large database of useful information accessible via World Wide Web In the Philosophy of language, a natural language (or ordinary language) is a Language that is spoken or written in phonemic-alphabetic or phonemically-related French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people The Wikimedia Foundation Inc is a Non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people ***************************************************************************************** * * Started in March 2001, this edition has over 643,000 articles as of April 2008 and is the third largest Wikipedia after the English language and German language editions. March 2001: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September International holidays and other major events April 1 - April Fools' Day April 4 - Qingming Festival (Mainland The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of Wikipedia. The German Wikipedia (Deutschsprachige Wikipedia is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online Encyclopedia. Thus it is the largest Wikipedia in a Romance language. The Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages, or Neolatin languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family comprising all

Wikipedians by country

A bot, DasBot, the French equivalent of the English Wikipedia's Rambot, has created a fair percentage of the articles on the site, adding articles for all the communes of France, e. Internet bots, also known as web robots, WWW robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. g. fr:Rochefort-en-Valdaine, and also on some of the smallest administrative areas (cantons). Rochefort-en-Valdaine is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. This data has been copied onto other Wikipedias, also via bots.

Timeline

2001

19 May: First recorded date: [1]
6 June: First known main page: [2] (Including the participation of Valéry Beaud and Buzz).

2002

June: A new logo (in green colour and quite different from the logo used on the other Wikipedias) is displayed in an initiative from Rinaldum. This autonomist move is criticized because all French wikipedians had not been consulted, but the logo is kept.
August: The first sysops, Anthere, Aoineko and Shaihulud are appointed after a disagreement with user Mulot. The first IP is blocked.
31 October: Phase III began.
December: A strong increase of activity is reported. It can be analysed as serial vandalism from a bot, and all subsequent corrections. After this new kind of vandalism, the software is changed in order to enable quicker reverts (rollback link available for sysops only).

2003

January: A strong decrease of activity, essentially due to the slowing down of servers, thus limiting participation.
6 February: Colored "Putsch" on the main page: Before → After. The new design, authored by Aoineko, is subsequently reused by other language versions (including Polish and English Wikipedias). Polish Wikipedia (polska Wikipedia is the Polish edition of Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of Wikipedia.
7 February: 5,000 articles.
19 February: 6,000 articles.
7 March: 7,000 articles.
27 March: 8,000 articles.
13 April: Overtakes Polish Wikipedia to become the third largest Wikipedia, behind the English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia with 9,051 articles. Polish Wikipedia (polska Wikipedia is the Polish edition of Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia is the English language edition of Wikipedia. The German Wikipedia (Deutschsprachige Wikipedia is the German-language edition of Wikipedia, a free and publicly editable online Encyclopedia.
15 May: 10,000 articles.
18 May: The main page has been viewed 100,000 times since the counter was implemented.
7 July: Wikipédia has 20,000 pages, including about 12,800 articles.
mid-July: The number of pages calculation is modified. According to the old calculation mode detecting at least a comma, 13,058 encyclopaedia articles are present, and the new calculation that detects at least one link, indicates 13,789 articles.
5 August: 15,000 articles; over 20,000 changes have been recorded since the implementation of phase III software.
20 August: Inhibition of some functions in order to increase performance.
4 September: 16,000 articles.
? October: New logo.
3-11 November: Papotages is the first user blocked forever as the author of severe and repeated vandalism.
17 November: Lorraine is the first article of the week. 38 users participated in its redaction.
22 November: 20,000 articles.

2004

26 January: 25,000 articles.
14 March: 30,000 articles.
End of March: Switch to UTF-8. UTF-8 (8- Bit UCS / Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length Character encoding for Unicode.
1st May: 35,000 articles.
16 June: 40,000 articles.
23 July: 45,000 articles.
29 August: 50,000 articles with nèfle.
2 November at 23:33: 60,000 articles with Lord Yarborough. Earl of Yarborough is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
22 December: 70,000 articles with Borée. Borée is a commune in the Ardèche department and Rhône-Alpes region of France.

2005

6 February: 80,000 articles.
14 March: 90,000 articles.
21 April: 100,000 articles with Pierre Séguier. Pierre Séguier ( May 28, 1588 - January 28, 1672) was a French statesman chancellor of France from 1635
June : Opening of the first Atelier graphique (Graphic Lab), with wikigraphists improving submitted images.
4 December: 200,000 articles with George Corliss.

2006

4 March: 250,000 articles with John Anglin. John William Anglin ( May 2, 1930 – c June 11, 1962 or later was an American Criminal who escaped from Alcatraz
10 June: 300,000 articles with Federal Government (Germany).
24 November: 400,000 articles with Neuropathie.

2007

2 May: During the 2007 French presidential debates, the article about the EPRs (Réacteur pressurisé européen) undergoes numerous edits after a mistake of Nicolas Sarkozy on the generation number (4 instead of 3). French presidential debates traditionally occur between the two rounds of the presidential elections, and are broadcasted on TV. The EPR (or US-EPR for the United States specific design is a third generation Pressurized water reactor (PWR design Nicolas Sarkozy (pronounced, ^[1]
28 May: 500,000 articles with Aitken (cratère).
28 December: 600,000 articles with Python birman (the first author is the same as the 250,000th article^[2])

2008

20 February: The popular French encyclopedia, Quid, cancels its 2008 edition blaming falling sales on competition from the French Wikipedia. Quid is a French Encyclopedia, established in 1963 by Dominique Frémy. ^[3]

References

External links

(French) French Wikipedia

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