Wikivoyage:Archive of Wikitravel (not Wikivoyage) milestones

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.

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

2,500th article

Chichester, September 23, 2004

5,000th article

Suzdal, August 3, 2005

10,000th article

Loveland (Ohio), July 12, 2006

50,000th article (across all language versions)

Khancoban, August 20, 2009

50,000th article (English)

 ?

100,000th article

 ?

Last CIA World Factbook 2002 disclaimer removed from a country article

June 5, 2006

Every UNESCO World Heritage Site covered

 ?

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

Usefulness

First report of someone using Wikitravel article(s) for travel

Talk:Taiwan/Archive 2003-2010#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." , 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 Wikitravelcontent

Wikitravel Singapore by Wikitravel Press, soft launch November 2007, public launch February 2008

First violation of the Wikitravel copyleft

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

First #1 Google hit

Apo Kayan, See , Detected April 21st, 2004

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")

 ?