since the first large group of non-English Wikipedias came online.
Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these
sites were:
chinese.wikipedia.com
esperanto.wikipedia.com
french.wikipedia.com
hebrew.wikipedia.com
italian.wikipedia.com
japanese.wikipedia.com
portuguese.wikipedia.com
spanish.wikipedia.com
russian.wikipedia.com
(from http://lists.wikimedia.org/
(deutsche and catalan had been created earlier that year)
The idea of having Wikipedias in multiple languages came from Jimbo in
March 2001 (http://lists.wikimedia.org/
note that the original German Wikipedia was actually set up at that
time, making it the second-oldest Wikipedia. Though the idea of using
two-letter domain codes was first raised then, after the above sites
were brought online in May there was further discussion, and the sites
were switched to two-letter codes a few days later:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/
Wikipedia Argentina also celebrated the es:wp10th anniversary today.
Happy tenth birthday, Wikipedias! (and many more!) May all of our
language editions flourish.
Thanks for reminding us of this anniversary! I had to tweet this earlier today, as I am sure many of my Italian wikipedian friends ignore it as well. I am quite sad that most of the wp10 activities stopped shortly after January, and that the most important discussion now is already focused on the future of the neglected ten.wiki. We should have planned something running through all 2011.
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