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==Events==
*[[January 15]]: The [[WP:OLDEST|first edit to Wikipedia]] is made to [[HomePage]] by {{u|Jimbo Wales}}: "This is the new WikiPedia!"
*[[January 16]], [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles|Wikipedia's oldest surviving article and edit]] is created by account eiffel.demon.co.uk, later known as [[user:Eiffel]]
*[[January 17]]: [[User:ScottMoonen]] becomes the [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User:ScottMoonen&oldid=11992008 first known named user].<ref>[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia's oldest articles]]</ref>
*[[February 12]], The English Wikipedia reaches '''1,000''' articles.
*[[March 17]], At 01:41 UTC, the first ever edit to a non-English Wikipedia is made to the article [[:ca:Àbac]] ("Abacus") by the anonymous user [[:ca:Especial:Contributions/194.158.80.xxx|194.158.80.xxx]]<ref>[http://ca.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=%C3%80bac&oldid=1 First edit in a non-English article (Àbac)]</ref>.
*[[May 19]], The first data is [http://web.archive.org/web/20010730122133/fr.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=HomePage&revision=4 recorded] in the [[French Wikipedia]]. 

==Features==
*[[November 2001]]: [[Wikipedia:Friends of Wikipedia]] is created to list webpages which link to Wikipedia. It [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Friends of Wikipedia|was deleted]] in [[Wikipedia:2005|2005]] after outliving its utility, then restored as [[Wikipedia:Historical archive/Friends of Wikipedia|an archive]].
*[[December 11]]: The page [[Wikipedia:Brilliant prose]] is created by [[Larry Sanger]]. It eventually becomes [[Wikipedia:Featured articles]] (renamed on January 21, [[Wikipedia:2004|2004]]). At present, there are '''{{Template:FA number}}''' featured articles, of a total of {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} pages on the English Wikipedia. Thus, about one in {{formatnum: {{#expr: 10*floor({{NUMBEROFARTICLES:R}} / (10*{{Template:FA number}}))}} }} articles is featured.

==Establishments==
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| [[January 13]]
| wikipedia.org is registered<ref>According to Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=&url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</ref>
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| rowspan="2" | [[March 16]]
| [[German Wikipedia]]
| Article creation began in May.
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| [[Catalan Wikipedia]]
| For two months, this was the only Wikipedia<br>with articles in a non-English language. 
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| [[March 23]] 
| [[French Wikipedia]]
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| rowspan="7" | [[May 11]]
| [[Spanish Wikipedia]]
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| [[Portuguese Wikipedia]]
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| [[Italian Wikipedia]]
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| [[Esperanto Wikipedia]]
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| [[Japanese Wikipedia]]
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| [[Chinese Wikipedia]]
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| [[Hebrew Wikipedia]]
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| [[May 20]]
| [[Russian Wikipedia]]
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| [[May 23]]
| [[Swedish Wikipedia]]
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| [[June 19]]
| [[Dutch Wikipedia]]
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| [[September 26]]
| [[Polish Wikipedia]]
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| [[November 16]]
| [[Afrikaans Wikipedia]]
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| [[November 26]]
| [[Norwegian Wikipedia]]
| Allowed articles in either language standard.
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| [[December 6]]
| [[Basque Wikipedia]]
| The first article was created in November 2003.
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The [[Simple English Wikipedia]] was also created in 2001, but the exact date is unknown and the first articles were only created in 2003.

==Holidays==
*[[January 15]]:  '''[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day|Wikipedia Day]]:''' The [[Wikipedia]] project formally begins.

==Earliest user accounts==
It is difficult to establish start dates in the early days of Wikipedia. Most of the information in monthly format is taken from [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians in order of arrival/2001]].

===January===
{| class="wikitable"
! Username
! Last activity<br>(if inactive)
! Notes/user comment
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| {{User|WojPob}} || 2003 ||
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| {{User|AstroNomer}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> ||
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| {{User|Josh Grosse}} || 2009 ||
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| {{User|AyeSpy}} || before the move to phase III ||
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| {{User|RoseParks}} || 2006 || 
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| {{User|TimShell}} || 2002 || And I can [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-January/author.html prove it] : )
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| {{User|BryceHarrington}} || 2017 || Joined up with Wikipedia after the brief GNUPedia episode and its mention on Slashdot.  Did some of the first Britannica copying.  Pimped wikipedia a bit on Indymedia and some other sites. 
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| {{User|Larry Sanger}} || 2019 || earliest edits as LarrySanger
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| {{User|Jimbo Wales}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || Likely January 15 (see above)
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| {{User|ScottMoonen}} || 2001 || created on [[January 17]], no edits beside own user page
|}

===February===
{| class="wikitable"
! Username
! Last activity<br>(if inactive)
! Notes/user comment
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| {{User|Lee Daniel Crocker}} || 2003 ||
|}

===March===
{| class="wikitable"
! Username
! Last activity<br>(if inactive)
! Notes/user comment
|-
| {{User|Stephen Gilbert}} || July 2018 ||
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| {{User|Rob Salzman}} || 2001 || now editing as [[User:Justrob]]
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| {{User|Geronimo Jones}} || 2001 ||
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| {{User|Mathijs}} || 2002 || read about it in the newspaper
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| {{User|Erdem Tüzün}} || prior to the move to phase III ||
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| {{User|Andre Engels}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> ||
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| {{User|Malcolm Farmer}} || 2013 ||
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| {{User|Phil Bordelon}} || 2010 ||
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| {{User|Gareth Owen}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || can't remember why I came, but noticed it lacked [[Sex Pistols|my]] [[Bob Dylan|favourite]] [[The Band|musicians]], so resolved to add them.
|}

===April===
{| class="wikitable"
! Username
! Last activity<br>(if inactive)
! Notes/user comment
|-
| {{User|Koyaanis Qatsi}} || 2008 || based on the revision history of [[Bahrain]].  Followed over from a comment on slashdot
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| {{User|rmhermen}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || anonymously until May 10, came over from the link on Nupedia.
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| {{User|Kpjas}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || subscribed to wikipedia-l@nupedia.com on Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:12:51 -0700
|}

===May===
{| class="wikitable"
! Username
! Last activity<br>(if inactive)
! Notes/user comment
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| {{User|Mjausson}} || prior to the move to phase III || based on [[Wikipedia:Announcements_2001#May_2001|Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001]]
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| {{User|Wathiik}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || based on [[Wikipedia:Announcements_2001#May_2001|Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001]]
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| {{User|LA2}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || based on [[Wikipedia:Announcements_2001#May_2001|Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001]] 
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| {{User|Koyaanis Qatsi}} || 2008 || based on [[Wikipedia:Announcements_2001#May_2001|Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001]]; inactive since 2008
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| {{User|sjc}} || 2010 ||
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| {{User|Tim Chambers}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> ||
|}

===June===

===July===
{| class="wikitable"
! Username
! Last activity<br>(if inactive)
! Notes/user comment
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| {{User|TwoOneTwo}} || 2011 ||
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| {{User|The Cunctator}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> ||  July 26, the day of the big Slashdotting
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| {{User|AxelBoldt}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> ||  July 26, the day of the big Slashdotting
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| {{User|BrantEaton}} || 2003 || July 26, [[Slashdot effect]] was my first article!
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| {{User|David_Merrill}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || another one from the Slashdotting
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| {{User|Jdforrester}} || 2002 || yet another Slashdotter (though the account is newer)
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| {{User|Tim Goodwin}} || 2003 || guess which well-known blog appears on ''my'' Personal Toolbar
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| {{User|Simon J Kissane}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || thinks he arrived just before slashdotting; now editing under [[User:SJK|SJK]]
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| {{User|Kowloonese}} || 2016 || as anonymous 24.4.254.xxx et al. (since first week of July, 2001
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| {{User|ClaudineChionh}} || 2001 || not from Slashdot, but from the Kuro5hin article that might have led to it 
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| {{User|snoyes}} || 2014 || [[k5]] article
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| {{User|DrBob}} || 2009 || Due to either the Kuro5hin or Slashdot articles 
|}

===August===
{| class="wikitable"
! Username
! Last activity<br>(if inactive)
! Notes/user comment
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| {{User|sodium}} || 2013 || sometime in August 
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| {{User|MichaelTinkler}} || 2002 || it was before school started...; inactive since 2002
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| {{User|Zundark}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || on 6th or 7th, not sure which
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| {{User|Anatoly Vorobey}} || 2006 || arrived probably during the slashdotting, first contribution early August
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| {{User|BenBaker}} || 2002 || 2nd wave of slashdotting, 1st or 2nd, I think.
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| {{User|Amillar}} || 2002 ||  the big slashdotting...; 
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| {{User|Bryan Derksen}} || August 2018 || 
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| {{User|Theresa knott}} || 2015 || from a post by someone (I forget who on usenet (sci.physics))
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| {{User|Jagged}} || 2010 || first contribution listed on 15 August, 2001 
|}

===September===
{| class="wikitable"
! Username
! Last activity<br>(if inactive)
! Notes/user comment
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| {{User|Chuck Smith}} || 2011 ||
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| {{User|Tsja}} || 2003 ||
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| {{User|JHK}} || 2017 ||
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| {{User|Eob}} || 2006 || after reading the article in the New York Times, September 20
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| {{User|Bignose}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> ||
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| {{User|Manning Bartlett}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || I was here a day or two before JHK... I thought it was earlier than September, but maybe not 
|}

===October===
{| class="wikitable"
! Username
! Last activity<br>(if inactive)
! Notes/user comment
|-
| {{User|PMelvilleAustin}} || <div class="center">?</div>|| {{user|PabsP}} for whatever wikiDB  reason the first edit logged as July 26, 2002; PabsP userpage created April 3, 2005.
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| {{User|the Epopt}} || June 2018 ||
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| {{User|Dreamyshade}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || at least that's when I first contributed
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| {{User|The Anome}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> ||
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| {{User|Mark}} || 2015 || as an anon, but the account [[Special:Contributions/Mark Ryan|Mark Ryan]] didn't come for another 3 months, in January 2002. 
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| {{User|Wesley}} || 2015 || must have been early to middle of 2001 - how it's changed since then
|}

===November===
{| class="wikitable"
! Username
! Last activity<br>(if inactive)
! Notes/user comment
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| {{User|Wayne Hardman}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || [[November 23|November 23rd]]
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| {{User|Jzcool}} || 2003 || 
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| {{User|Xaonon}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> ||
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| {{User|Goochelaar}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> ||
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| {{User|Chenyu}} || 2002 ||
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| {{User|Joel Schlosberg}} || 2016 ||
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| {{User|Ed Poor}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> ||
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| {{User|Derek Ross}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || October 134.132.xxx.xxx postings were me too
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| {{User|Jmc}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || [[November 16]]
|}

===December===
{| class="wikitable"
! Username
! Last activity<br>(if inactive)
! Notes/user comment
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| {{User|tuxisuau}} || 2004 ||
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| {{User|David Parker}} || 2005 || [[December 12]]
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| {{User|Little_guru}} || 2006 ||
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| {{User|Szopen}} || 2011 || probably since beginning of December or end of November 2001
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| {{User|Robert Merkel}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || probably earlier, but I can't tell exactly when I arrived.
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| {{admin-abbr|Eloquence}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || 05:47, first logged edit on [[December 8]]
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| {{admin-abbr|SimonP}} || <span style="color:green;">'''active'''</span> || 11:20, first logged edit on [[December 9]]
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| {{admin-abbr|Slrubenstein}} || 2012 || 03:33, first logged edit on [[December 13]]
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