Bhamwiki:Milestones
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Bhamwiki was launched on March 15, 2006.
2006
- The 1st article, Interstate hole (renamed several times since) was added on March 15, 2006 by User:Gt9606a (logged in as Dystopos)
- The 100th article, Writer's Block, was written on April 17, 2006 by User:Dystopos.
- On May 24, 2006 the logo was updated.
- On June 12, 2006 the site was upgraded to MediaWiki 1.6.7
- The 500th article, Karl C. Harrison Museum of George Washington, was written on June 18, 2006 by User:Dystopos.
- At 500 articles, BhamWiki is more comprehensive than several Wikipedias - specifically those serving the Cantonese, Maori, Moldovan, Amharic, and Mongolian language communities.
- The 600th article, List of Birmingham police chiefs, was compiled on July 13, 2006 by User:Dystopos.
- On July 28, notable Birmingham blogger Wade Kwon named BhamWiki one of "Birmingham's Hottest Sites". The article identified some of the MediaWiki tools as our strongest features and noted the need for "a roadmap on how to get started with the group." The other four sites honored were BarCamp Birmingham, Birmingham Buzz, Birmingham Rewound, and the Magic City Flickr Group.
- The 700th article, 1997 City Stages, was created on July 23, 2006 by Dystopos.
- The 800th article, Anthony Barnes, was created on August 5, 2006 by User:Dystopos.
- On August 10, a "favicon.ico" file was added to the server to dress up your bookmarks.
- The 900th article, Homewood Public Library, was created on August 18, 2006 by User:Dystopos.
- The "Best of Birmingham" feature in the September 2006 issue of Birmingham Magazine noted BhamWiki's historical resources in the context of Birmingham history websites publicized on Wade on Birmingham.
- BhamWiki's 1000th article was John Farr, Jr, contributed by User:Lkseitz on September 8, 2006
- The 1100th article was MAX Transit Route 5, by User:Patriarca12 on September 27, 2006
- Bhamwiki:Sustainability, the first "portal" (a subject-specific entry page) was created on October 11, 2006 by User:Dystopos. It was requested for use by the Urban Sustainability Task Force of Catalyst for Birmingham.
- The 1200th article was Basset Apartments, added by User:Dystopos on October 13, 2006
- The 1250th article was Navy Cargo Handling Battalion 12, added by User:Dystopos on October 21, 2006
- The 1300th article was 2005 Birmingham Steeldogs, added by User:Patriarca12 on October 30, 2006.
- The 1400th article was Jay Sebring, added by User:Dystopos on November 13, 2006.
- An article on BhamWiki was published in The Birmingham News on November 25, 2006, written by Erin Stock. Site traffic for November 25 was approximately 7 times our average load and we signed on 10 new editors over the weekend.
- The 1500th article was Peoples Bank of North Alabama, added by User:Wheresdib on December 6, 2006.
- The 1600th article was Storyteller fountain, added by User:Patriarca12 on December 31, 2006.
2007
- An article on BhamWiki was published in Black & White on January 11, 2007, written by Paul Brantley.
- The 1700th article was List of bottlers, added by User:Dystopos on January 18, 2007.
- Bhamwiki was mentioned in an article about political wikis on the Personal Democracy Forum dated January 22, 2007.
- The 1800th article was The Club, added by User:Dystopos on February 4, 2007.
- On February 11, 2007 the site was upgraded to MediaWiki 1.9.2 on PHP 5.1.2. The size of the database overstepped the memory limits for the web server when the PHP update scripts were run, meaning that for several hours edit attempts returned a database error.
- The 1900th article was Downtown Club, added by User:Dystopos on February 24, 2007.
- The 2000th article was Docena, added by Dystopos on March 10, 2007.
- On March 22, 2007 the Birmingham Weekly made us their weekly pick for Monday March 26, encouraging readers to consult BhamWiki to "learn a ton about our tortured, beloved, conflicted, potential-rich and angst-ridden Birmingham," and also to "double-check the facts you find."
- On March 28, 2007 the site was upgraded to MediaWiki 1.9.3.
- The 2100th article was Geneva Mercer, added by Dystopos on April 4, 2007.
- The 2200th article was Helena Fire Department, added by User:Lkseitz on April 26, 2007.
- On May 6, 2007 we registered our 100th user account.
- The 2300th article was Michael Gibbons, added by Dystopos on May 20, 2007.
- On May 31, 2007 BhamWiki was profiled in an article on The Terminal.
- The 2400th article was Jim Parkman, added by Dystopos on June 19, 2007.
- On June 30, 2007 the site was upgraded to MediaWiki 1.10.0.
- The 2500th article was Tuscaloosa Horns, added by User:Rreach on July 6, 2007.
- The 2600th article was Tara Gray, added by Dystopos on July 18, 2007.
- The 2700th article was August 24, added by User:Wheresdib on August 9, 2007.
- On August 17, 2007 The Terminal began using BhamWiki's date articles as a source for its history column, "A Look Back."
- The 2800th article was the Daniel Building, added by User:Wheresdib on August 29, 2007.
- The 2900th article was the 2007 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, added by User:Wheresdib on September 19, 2007.
- The 3000th article was Charley Boswell, added by User:MacroAlan on October 14, 2007.
- The 3100th article was December 4, added by User:Wheresdib on November 8, 2007.
- The 3200th article was Alexander Jefferson, added by User:Dystopos on November 29, 2007.
- The 3300th article was Holli Watts, added by User:Lkseitz on December 12, 2007.
- On December 26, a Birmingham News article by Lisa Osburn depicted Bhamwiki as a straightforward "recitation of facts authored by the masses."
- On December 28, Doc's Political Parlor began using BhamWiki for its "Today in Alabama History" feature.
- The 3400th article was Raymond Boland, added by User:Wheresdib on December 31, 2007.
2008
- The 3500th article was Larry Lemak, added by User:Wheresdib on January 10, 2008.
- The 3600th article was Joe Cribbs, added by User:Wheresdib on January 26, 2008.
- The 3700th article was Eubanks Mercantile building, added by User:Wheresdib on February 20, 2008.
- The 3800th article was Dan Bynum, added by Dystopos on March 9, 2008.
- The 3900th article was Independence Drive, added by User:Lkseitz on March 25, 2008.
- February and March 2008 brought unprecedented growth in traffic to Bhamwiki. See Special:Popularpages for an idea of what people are looking for when they find us.
- The 4000th article was Eddie Kendrick Memorial Park, added by User:Wheresdib on April 18, 2008.
- An article entitled "Virtual Networks: An Opportunity for Government" in the Spring 2008 issue of The Public Manager mentioned Bhamwiki as an example of a municipal wiki that improves "people's ability to understand and control their government through citizen engagement in the political process."
- The 4100th article was Randy Smith, added by User:Lkseitz on May 8, 2008.
- The 4200th article was Jim St. John, added by User:Dystopos on June 2, 2008.
- In early June we began experimenting with "beautified" URLs on Bhamwiki. Testing and tweaking continue.
- On June 13 a new Bhamwiki logo was created.
- The 4300th article was Kyle Whitmire, added by User:Wheresdib on June 25, 2008
- The 4400th article was Parkside Home & Garden, added by User:Dystopos on July 22, 2008.
- The August issue of Birmingham magazine included an article entitled "Birmingham on the Web", featuring Bhamwiki as "a resource for a quick overview on any number of Birmingham-related topics." Seventeen other valuable sites were listed, including our sister site, the Magic City Flickr Group.
- On August 5 Bhamwiki began using Twitter.com to publicize new or interesting articles. (link)
- The 4500th article was Will Ferniany, added by User:Dystopos on August 10, 2008.
- The site suffered prolonged outages due to a bad firewall rule on its file server on August 26-27.
- The 4600th article was Roberts Cemetery, added by User:Dystopos on August 27, 2008.
- The 4700th article was John Longwell, added by User:Dystopos on September 23, 2008.
- On September 29 a beta / mirror version of Bhamwiki, hosted by the Birmingham Public Library, went live at bhamwiki.org.
- On October 17 the Birmingham News posted the results of its "Best of the Best" readers' poll. Bhamwiki.com finished fourth behind al.com, bhamterminal.com, and nbc13.com for "Best Local Web Site".
- The 4800th article was Alabama Geocachers Association, added by User:Wheresdib on November 7, 2008.
- The 4900th article was Jim Reed, added by User:Wheresdib on December 22, 2008.
2009
- The 5,000th article was Alagasco, added by User:Wheresdib on February 2.
- The 5,100th article was Odenville, added by User:Dystopos on March 3.
- The site celebrated its third anniversary at Silvertron Cafe on March 15.
- A Facebook group for Bhamwiki editors, supporters and fans was launched on March 16.
- The 5,200nd article was Henry B. Walthall, added by User:Lkseitz on March 28.
- The 5,300rd article was 9th Avenue Deck, added by User:Dystopos on April 26.
- The 5,400th article was Thomas Jeffers, added by User:Dystopos on May 24.
- The 5,500th article was Marian Ann Dowdell Woods, added by User:Dystopos on June 16.
- The 5,600th article was WERC-FM, added by User:Dystopos on July 6.
- Sometime in July 2009 we passed the 4 million page views milestone, as recorded at Special:Statistics.
- On July 15 an article by Kevin Makice in Wired.com's "GeekDad" blog referenced Bhamwiki among the local wiki's that are larger than Bloomingpedia.
- The 5,700th article was Trails of Africa, added by User:Dystopos on July 27.
- The 5,800th article was James Williams, added by User:Dystopos on August 16.
- The 5,900th article was John Holcomb, Jr, added by User:Dystopos on August 30.
- The 6,000th article was John Moore (disambiguation), added by User:Dystopos on September 24.
- The 6,100th article was Jack Nelson, added by User:Dystopos on October 22.
- A November 10 article about Carole Smitherman on CBS42.com was lifted entirely from Bhamwiki (with attribution, but without respecting our CC license)
- The Jeffco Can website puts Bhamwiki atop their links section (jeffcocan.com/links).
- The 6,200th article was Kenneth Livesay, added by User:Dystopos on November 18.
- The 6,300th article was Dean and Company, added by User:Wheresdib on December 20.
2010
- The 6,400th article was Lakeshore, added by User:Lkseitz on January 18.
- The 6,500th article was Walter McAdory, added by User:Dystopos on February 10.
- The 6,600th article was Frederick Knight, added by User:Dystopos on March 7.
- The 6,700th article was William Spencer III, added by User:Dystopos on March 30.
- The 6,800th article was Toni Tully, added by User:Dystopos on April 25.
- The 6,900th article was Laura Rickman, added by User:Realkyhick on May 16.
- The 7,000th article was Desperado's, added by User:Dystopos on June 11.
- The 7,100th article was 9324 Parkway East, added by User:Wheresdib on July 14.
- The 7,200th article was Monte D'Oro, added by User:Dystopos on August 9.
- On August 23, I quietly changed all mentions of "BhamWiki" to "Bhamwiki" in the main page.
- Sometime in August 2010 we passed the 8 million page views milestone, as recorded at Special:Statistics.
- The 7,300th article was Hayes K-8 School, added by User:Dystopos on September 14.
- The 7,400th article was Kendal Brown, added by User:Dystopos on October 26.
- A mysterious error involving server-side output compression causes the site to become inaccessible on October 28. A good samaritan stepped in early October 30 and commented out the offending line in the site's php.ini file. I'm still trying to determine what triggered the problem.
- The 7,500th article was Bulwagi, added by User:Dystopos on December 8.
2011
- The 7,600th article was Dax Swatek, added by User:Dystopos on January 7.
- The 7,700th article was Montgomery Highway (Vestavia Hills, added by User:Lkseitz on January 27.