Editing History of Wikipedia (section)

====2005====
In 2005, Wikipedia became the most popular reference website on the Internet, according to [[Hitwise]], with English Wikipedia alone exceeding 750,000 articles. Wikipedia's first multilingual and subject portals were established in 2005. A formal fundraiser held in the first quarter of the year raised almost US$100,000 for system upgrades to handle growing demand. China again blocked Wikipedia in October 2005.

The first major Wikipedia scandal, the [[Seigenthaler incident]], occurred in 2005 when a well-known figure was found to have a vandalized biography that had gone unnoticed for months. In the wake of this and other concerns,<ref name="Brandt">[[Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons|WP:BLP]] was started on 17 December 2005, with the narrative "I started this due to the Daniel Brandt situation". [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons&oldid=31753956 Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609020908/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons&oldid=31753956 |date=9 June 2021 }}</ref> the first policy and system changes specifically designed to counter this form of abuse were established. These included a new [[m:CheckUser policy|Checkuser]] privilege policy update to assist in [[Sockpuppet (Internet)|sock puppetry]] investigations, a new feature called {{self-reference link|Wikipedia:Requests for page protection|semi-protection}}, a more strict policy on biographies of living people and the tagging of such articles for stricter review. A restriction of new article creation to registered users only was put in place in December 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Terdiman |first=Daniel |title=Growing pains for Wikipedia |url=https://www.cnet.com/culture/growing-pains-for-wikipedia/ |access-date=16 March 2023 |publisher=CNET |language=en |archive-date=16 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316055529/https://www.cnet.com/culture/growing-pains-for-wikipedia/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Wikimania 2005, the first [[Wikimania]] conference, was held from 4 to 8 August 2005 at the ''Haus der Jugend'' in [[Frankfurt]], attracting about 380 attendees.

[[File:Wikimania - the Wikimentary.webm|thumb|thumbtime=00:17|right|200px|''Wikimania – the Wikimentary'', documentary about Wikimania 2005, featuring [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Ward Cunningham]]]]