This post is a basic timeline of Wikipedia. There are 27 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia
- WikiWikiWeb is the first wiki launched by Ward Cunningham (1994)
- Nupedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (2000)
- Wikipedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (2001)
- Larry Sanger leaves Wikipedia (2002)
- English Wikipedia passes 100,000 articles (2003)
- Wikimedia Foundation is founded (2003)
- Wiktionary is launched (2002)
- Wikiquote is launched (2003)
- Wikibooks is launched (2003)
- Nupedia goes defunct (2003)
- Wikisource is launched (2003)
- Wikimedia Commons is launched (2004)
- Wikinews is launched (2004)
- Wikia is launched (2004)
- Wikispecies is launched (2004)
- English Wikipedia passes 1,000,000 articles (2006)
- Wikiversity is launched (2006)
- Brad Patrick becomes the first CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation (2006)
- Wikivoyage is launched (2006)
- Sue Gardner becomes CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation (2007)
- Wikipedia protests SOPA and PIPA acts with 24 hour shut down (2012)
- Wikidata is launched (2013)
- English Wikipedia passes 5,000,000 articles (2015)
- Katherine Maher becomes executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (2016)
- Katherine Maher becomes CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation (2019)
- WikiTribune is launched (2017)
- Maryana Iskander becomes CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation (2022)
