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March 2002

March 1, 2002

No longer an employee, with limited spare time, and discouraged that a good job can't be done as a part-time volunteer, Larry Sanger has resigned responsibility for leading Wikipedia and as Nupedia editor-in-chief. Please read his letter of resignation to the community.

February 2002

February 13, 2002

Larry Sanger has made an important announcement about his involvement in Wikipedia and Nupedia. He hopes you'll read this.

February 12, 2002

Numerous bugfixes and optimizations to the new PHP/MySQL-based software have brought Wikipedia back up to speed. Please continue to report bugs.

Well done, guys!

February 7, 2002

Today, February 7th, Spanish Wikipedia met the challenge. We reached our first 1.000 useful articles.
Stats:
Pages (total):1.502
"Comma" pages:1.131
Meta-wikipedia pages:-113
Useful articles pages:1.018
Edgar

February 4, 2002

The main page recently announced that we broke the 23,000 article mark. This is in spite of the fact that, in the few weeks since we've switched to the new PHP/MySQL-based software, the website has been running annoyingly slowly. This is a problem our team of programmers has been working on; join Wikipedia-L (or see the archives) for details. Hopefully, this problem will be solved soon, but we can't make any guarantees yet. Thanks very much to the volunteers.  :-)

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