Wikilivres:Current events

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2006

• 11 April: Site installation.
• 27 April: 100th article with Notre avenir à tous, chapitre 9 - Le défi urbain.
• 29 May: 200th article with Le Mystère de la chambre jaune - 14 by Gaston Leroux.
• 12 July: 300th article with Culture libre/Piratage.
• 27 and 28 July: 400th and 500th articles with chapters of An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth by Mohandas K. Gandhi.
• 19 October: 600th article with Le Sermon difficile, a short story by Louis Pergaud.
• 24 October: Move of the site to a new server, the old one being overloaded.
• 24 December: 700th article with Tribune libre - Introduction.

2007

• 17 April: 800th article with Chateaubriand's memoirs, IX, 13.
• 1 May: Because of the increasing number of spammers, anonymous users cannot create pages anymore. They can still modify existing pages.
• 6 May: Blocking of spams activated.
• 27 May: 900th article with Nineteen Eighty-four - Part III, 3 by George Orwell.
• 4 June: 1,000th article with Poèmes pour la paix by Paul Éluard.
• 8 July: Update of Mediawiki software to version 1.10.0., followed by 2 weeks of service interruption when the wiki is in read-only mode.
• 24 July: Move to a new hosting service following numerous problems with the old one. The default language is now English.
• 28 September: Launch of the Russian section of the site.
• 1 October: 1,500th article with The Sun, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Poem, Cite, CharSet and ProofreadPage extensions added.
• 2 October: All works by Daniil Kharms (more than 100 pages) were moved here from the Russian and English parts of "Wikisource". The beginning of moving here of the works by Osip Mandelstam and Mikhail Prishvin.
• 3 October: All 43 works by Mikhail Prishvin were moved here from the Russian part of Wikisource.
• 9 October: The poems by Agniya Barto, the famous children poetess, were moved here together with the works of dozens others authors rejected by the Russian part of Wikisource by copyright reasons. The Russian section of Wikilivres reached 450 articles now. It contains works of 20 Russian authors and 15 foreign authors in Russian translation.
• 10 October: Sonnet 66 by Shakespeare in the Russian translation by Samuil Marshak became the 2,000th article. The page Accueil was viewed 10,000 times.
• 15 October: Vandal bot attack. Further account creation and edit restrictions.
• 1 November: More extensions available: LilyPond, CategoryTree, ExpandTemplates, etc. See also Wikilivres:Lilypond.
• 2 November: 2,500th page with Days of War, Nights of Love/Afterwor(l)d‎.
• 4 November: All Osip Mandelstam pages (more than 250) were moved here from the Russian part of Wikisource.
• 8 November: Russian section reached 1000th page. It becomes: Осень («Authumn»), the text of the song by Charles Ives (the text was composed together with his wife Harmony Twitchell).
• 21 November: 100th author of the Russian section (all together in Wikilivres 233 authors).
• 23 November: 200th user was registered in Wikilivres.
• 26 November: 3,000th page with Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto VI in Russian.
• 23 December: 3,500th page with Poèmes retrouvés from Paul Éluard

2008

• 18 January: 4,000th page with Вильгельм Александрович Зоргенфрей, in Russian.
• 22 January: Le Petit Prince has become the most popular text.
• 29 January: Creation of the Spanish portal.
• 8 February: Increase of the server memory.
• 23 February: 4,500th page with Léon-Paul Fargue (French poet)
• 29 February: Added the Polyglot extension for a better internationalisation.
• 16 March: Creation of a page Make a donation. Feel free to help. ;o)
• 22 March: 5,000th page with Buoyant Billions, a play by George Bernard Shaw.
• 20 April: Main Page in Chinese at 首頁‎, started in traditional Chinese.
• 29 May: 5,500th page with Aesop's fable Мышка в котле in Russian.
• 16 June: 200th author of the Russian section (all together in Wikilivres 436 authors).
• 9 July: The Main Page was visited 50,000 times.
• 9 July: Mediawiki upgraded to 1.12.0
• 11 July: Works by Chinese authors who died between 1950 and 1957 were moved here from Chinese Wikisource.
• 15 July: 6,000th page with Chateaubriand's memoirs, XXXI, 8 by François-René de Chateaubriand.
• 20 July: 3 more extensions added: SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi, UniversalEditButton, Gadgets.
• 30 July: Set up a reverse proxy cache. We can now host many images.
• 7 August: The site is migrated to a new, bigger and faster server.
• 18 August: 6,500th page with Osip Mandelstam's poem ‎Если б меня наши враги взяли… in Russian.
• 11 September: Works by Chinese authors who died between 1946 and 1949 were moved here from Chinese Wikisource.
• 12 October: 7,000th page with Jean Zay‎, French politician.
• 13 October: Upgrading Mediawiki to version 1.13.2.
• 4 November: Images from Wikimedia Commons are now directly available. See Jean Racine as an example.
• 17 November: 7,500th page with Chateaubriand's memoirs, XXXVII, 1, a translation of Mémoires d’outre-tombe by Chateaubriand.

2009

• 3 February: 8,000th page with Средь народного шума и спеха, a poem by Osip Mandelstam (in Russian).
• 15 February: Upgrade of the server to Debian Lenny.
• 5 April: Launch of the Czech section of the site as the seventh language.
• 15 October: 9,000th page with First when Maggie was my care, a song by Robert Burns.
• 4 November: 300th author of the Russian section (Georg Heym) is registered (all together in Wikilivres 677 authors).