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This page lists the milestones of WikiProject Football. It is hoped that the following will be recorded here for posterity -
- Project, sub-project, task force and child project creation dates
- Featured article milestones - 1st, 10th, 20th etc
- Featured list milestones - 1st, 10th, 20th etc
- Featured content milestones - x appeared on main page, total of featured content = 10, 20,
- Good article milestones
- Tagged article milestones - 500 articles, 1000, 5000, 10000, 15000 etc
- User milestones - 1st, 50th, 100th, 150th etc
[edit] Project milestones
- 9 June 2005 - Project created by User:Johan Elisson (original page), Johan had created Portal:Association football six days earlier.
- 7 July 2005 - IFK Göteborg becomes the project's first featured article.
- 20 September 2005 - IFK Göteborg becomes the project's first featured article to appear on Wikipedia's Main page.
- 3 February 2006 - WikiProject Football's second child project WikiProject Non-league football is created by User:Cantthinkofagoodname. The first was Wikipedia:WikiProject A-League which pre-dated WP:FOOTBALL, being created by User:Albinomonkey on December 20, 2004 (original page).
- 4 February 2006 - User:Kaiser23 becomes the project's 50th member.
- 19 February 2006 - Swedish football champions becomes the project's first featured list.
- 28 April 2006 - WikiProject A-League creates the Player project taskforce (original page).
- 16 May 2006 - Agony of Doha becomes the 30th football related Did you know? to appear on Wikipedia's main page.
- 21 May 2006 - User:Cs-wolves becomes the project's 100th member.
- 9 August 2006 - Portal:A-League was created by User:Daniel (original page).
- 29 August 2006 - the assessment department was added to the project. Over 500 articles were supported at this stage.
- 31 August 2006 - User:Balerion becomes the project's 150th member.
- 13 September 2006 - Sheffield Wednesday F.C. becomes the project's tenth featured article.
- 31 September 2006 - the project passes the 1,000 article milestone.
- 12 October 2006 - Premier League becomes the project's fifth featured article to appear on the Main page.
- 27 October 2006 - WikiProject A-League expands scope to become WikiProject Football (soccer) in Australia (original page).
- 12 November 2006 - History of Bristol Rovers F.C. is the 40th football related DYK on the main page.
- 31 November 2006 - the project passes the 5,000 article milestone.
- 14 December 2006 - User:Charruss2491 becomes the project's 200th member.
- 28 January 2007 - List of Manchester United F.C. players becomes the project's tenth featured list.
- 13 March 2007 - User:Zanoni becomes the project's 250th member.
- 6 April 2007 - 7 football related articles were included in the Wikipedia:Version 0.5 DVD release.
- 17 April 2007 - Francis Lee is the 50th football related DYK on the main page.
- 17 May 2007 - 18 football related articles were placed on the 2007 Wikipedia Selection for schools
- 30 May 2007 - User:Sebisthlm becomes the project's 300th member.
- 5 June 2007 - Itzik Zohar is the 60th football related DYK on the main page.
- 13 June 2007 - History of Arsenal F.C. (1886–1966) becomes the project's twentieth featured article.
- 17 June 2007 - Norwich City F.C. becomes the project's tenth featured article to appear on the Main page.
- 31 June 2007 - the project passes the 10,000 article milestone.
- 23 July 2007 - Eddy Brown is the 70th football related DYK on the main page.
- 15 September 2007 - User:Heitz669 becomes the project's 350th member.
- 24 September 2007 - List of York City F.C. managers becomes the project's twentieth featured list at 15:56 UTC, being promoted one minute before the twenty-first featured list Ipswich Town F.C. seasons.
- 29 September 2007 - Harry Newbould is the 80th football related DYK on the main page.
- 31 September 2007 - the project passes the 15,000 article milestone.
- 16 October 2007 - List of Gillingham F.C. players (a featured list) becomes the project's 50th article to achieve featured status. There were 27 featured articles and 23 featured lists on this date.
- 12 November 2007 - Gillingham F.C. seasons becomes the project's 30th featured list, Denis Law is the first article to be de-featured.
- 14 December 2007 - Gary Willard is the 90th football related DYK on the main page.
- 5 January 2008 - Image:U20-WorldCup2007-Okotie-Onka edit2.jpg becomes the project's first Featured picture.
- 13 January 2008 - the project passes the 20,000 article milestone. There were 29 featured articles and 38 featured lists on this date.
- 24 January 2008 - Stocksbridge Park Steels F.C. becomes the project's 30th featured article.
- 25 January 2008 - Gillingham F.C. becomes the project's first featured topic and Leeds United A.F.C. seasons becomes the project's 40th featured list.
- 31 January 2008 - FC Mretebi Tbilisi is the 100th football related DYK on the main page.
- 12 February 2008 - User:GarethHolteDavies becomes the project's 400th member.
- 21 February 2008 - Game 39 is the 110th football related DYK on the main page.
- 2 March 2008 - Ipswich Town F.C. becomes the project's second featured topic.
- 10 March 2008 - York City F.C. becomes the project's third featured topic.
- 12 March 2008 - Statistics provided by User:Sjorford suggested that there are 65,838 articles in the 8008 categories in the Category:Football (soccer) hierarchy on this date, this accounted for 2.89% of the 2,277,708 articles on Wikipedia as a whole. Of these, only 24,396 (37%) were tagged with {{football}} according to the latest WP1.0 statistics.
- 18 March 2008 - the project passes the 25,000 article milestone.
- 20 March 2008 - Portal:English football becomes the project's first featured portal.
- 14 September 2008 - 911 articles were selected for inclusion on Wikipedia:Version 0.7 out of a possible 53,311 for the main project with more from subprojects and taskforces (see Wikipedia:0.7/0.7index/Football).
- 11 December 2008 - Taskforce on Association Football variants created
