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.

[edit] Web site

Domain name registered: February 19, 2003
MediaWiki software installed and operational: July 24, 2003
First major crash: Database crashed February 20, 2004

[edit] 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: Loveland (Ohio), July 12, 2006
50,000th article: ?
100,000th article: ?
Last CIA World Factbook 2002 disclaimer removed from a country article: June 5, 2006
Every UNESCO World Heritage Site covered: ?

[edit] Users

First user: July 24, 2003
100th user: November 7, 2003
500th user: April 15th, 2004
1000th user: November 4th, 2004
5000th user: March 20th, 2006
10,000th user: November 2006
First banned IP: User_talk:205.200.236.19 on March 17th, 2005, for inexplicable massive vandalism on three separate occasions
First banned user: User:I-HATE-NIGGERS-WHITEPOWER88 on 03:09, 31 March 2007 for 1 month (Violation of script policy)

[edit] Usefulness

First report of someone using Wikitravel article(s) for travel: Talk:Taiwan#Thanx for the guide, September 23rd, 2004
First report of someone using Wikitravel article(s) exclusively for travel: "I think printing out excerpts from wikitravel and bring them along from the trip should suffice." [1], March 28, 2006
First paper publication of a Wikitravel article: ?
First inclusion of Wikitravel content in a paper travel guide: JetAway magazine, Issue 5 (May/June 2006), "JetStar Asia Destinations" pp. 60-68
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 [2], Detected April 21st, 2004

[edit] Popularity

First blog entry about Wikitravel: Logical Disconnect, August 15, 2003
First Slashdot article mentioning Wikitravel: Wikipedia Criticised by Its Co-founder, January 5, 2005 (indirect reference)
First mainstream press article about Wikitravel: The Hindu ("India's National Paper"), September 15, 2003
First external Web site about Wikitravel (e.g., "ihatewikitravel.org"): ?

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