Editing Encyclopedia:Magnus Manske Day

{{Short description|Wikipedia holiday}}
[[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus Manske]] Day is [[January 25]], which commemorates the day in [[2002]] when Wikipedia switched to the [[Wikipedia:Phase II software|Phase II software]], the precursor to [[MediaWiki]]. This was an important day for [[Wikipedia]]. [[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales]] proclaimed<ref>{{cite web | url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-January/001164.html | title=&#91;Wikipedia-l&#93; Celebration | date=25 January 2002 | access-date=14 September 2023 | archive-date=31 October 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031022315/https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-January/001164.html | url-status=live }}</ref>:
: "I hereby decree, in my usual authoritarian and bossy manner, that today shall forever be known  as '''Magnus Manske Day'''.  Wikipedians of the distant future will marvel at the day when the new  software era dawned upon us. Tonight at dinner, every [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedian]] should say a toast to  [[User:Magnus Manske|Magnus]] and his many inventions."

On January 25, 2004, the second anniversary of Magnus Manske Day, the last-remaining language editions of Wikipedia powered by [[UseModWiki]] finally [[meta:Wikipedia software upgrade status|switched]] to MediaWiki.

== See also ==
* https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/18/fifteen-years-wikipedia-magnus-manske/
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia holidays]]
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day]]
* [[Wikipedia:Tim Starling Day]]
* [[Wikipedia:Brooke Vibber Day]]
* [[Wikipedia:Justin Knapp Day]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Wikipedia holidays]]