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This page is about festivals and holidays observed by the Wikipedia community. For Wikipedians' off-duty from Wikiwork, see
Wikipedia:Wikibreak
.
Wikipedia holidays
, or the
Order of the Day
, consist of
Wikipedia
's founding day of January 15 and four
Wikipedia awards
bestowed
honoris causa
by
Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales
, the site's 2001 co-founder. With the motto "We make the Internet not suck" derived from
a 2005 interview
with Wales, four of the five holidays celebrate specific developers and editors and their exceptional service to the community.
For the first four years of Wikipedia's existence, at random times known only to him,
Jimbo
decreed an official Wikipedia holiday. These are to be celebrated annually in the manner described in the proclamation. After a long break, the tradition was briefly resumed in 2012. Please note that each proclamation begins with Jimbo proclaiming "in his usual authoritarian and bossy manner"?meant to poke fun at the general impression that he is somehow the "
GodKing
of Wikipedia", which he proclaims in his usual authoritarian and bossy manner that he is not, in a tradition of general amusement.
- January 15
since
2001
:
Wikipedia Day
, the day Wikipedia went public (not actually proclaimed by Jimbo, just
universally acknowledged
by the
Wikipedia community
)
- January 25
since
2002
:
Magnus Manske Day
, "when Wikipedia switched to the
Phase II software
, the precursor to
MediaWiki
"
- October 31
since
2003
:
Tim Starling Day
, for "the new parsing algorithm"
- June 1
since
2004
:
Brooke Vibber Day
, for their "incredible dedication and hard work, without which the project should have collapsed a long time ago"
- April 20
since
2012
:
Justin Knapp Day
, to "the first person to ever make 1,000,000 edits"