This page is a chronology of events in year 2009 directly related to Wikipedia and Wikipedians, both within Wikipedia and in the whole wide world. Wikipedia events and events in sister projects (Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc.) are listed as long as they are related to Wikipedia.
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May 28: After long proceedings, Arbcom issued a massive restriction, including numerous bans against editors affiliated with Scientology. This was the first intentional ban of a whole organization for alleged pushing their agenda on wikipedia. [6]
June 15: Wikimedia to relicense its content as Massive Multiauthor Collaborations under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license, in addition to the current GFDL license
June 22: Beginning of "Wiki Loves Art" event in Netherlands (van 22 juni tot 1 september 2009): volunteers will visit Dutch museums to take photographs of art objects. The photos will be published online with a creative commons (CC) license. The project is run by Creative Commons Netherlands and Wikimedia Netherlands, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Museum Night Foundation and the Netherlands Institute for Heritage.[7][8]
OpenMoko launched the WikiReader, a dedicated reader device with an offline copy of the entire English Wikipedia (without images) stored on a chip.[13]
See Wikipedia:Former_administrators for all other currently former admins, who were desysopped voluntarily (those who may have been resysopped are no longer listed there).
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