Wikipedia : W Awards/History
On 22 January 2010: Noraft (talk · contribs ) created a first draft of a Golden W Award image at File:Wikipedia-W-Award-(Laurels).jpg .
On 22 January 2010: Noraft announced his intention to create a Golden W Award at WT:FOUR .
Subsequent discussion encouraged this pursuit.
On 23 January 2010: Noraft proposed the Golden W award at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals page.
On 13 February 2010: TonyTheTiger (talk · contribs ) suggested userfying the proposal due to its lack of consensus.
On 9 March 2010: Noraft created the Golden W Award page.
On 9 March 2010: TonyTheTiger created the WP:GOLDENW shortcut.
On 11 March 2010: Noraft userfied his proposal, which had garnered no consensus.
In March of 2010: TonyTheTiger and Noraft agreed on an image for the award on various talk pages and by email.
On 17 March 2010: Noraft posted the current design of the original Golden W Award image at File:Golden W Award2.png .
On 20 March 2010: Noraft posted the current design of the original Golden W, with Laurels, image over the first draft of the original Golden W Award image. This award has not been issued as of March 31, 2011[update] .
On 8 April 2010: Lampman (talk · contribs ) made the first nomination .
On 10 April 2010: TonyTheTiger made the first nomination that would lead to an award .
On 2 May 2010: Noraft promoted TonyTheTiger's nomination .
On 21 January 2011: Noraft informed TonyTheTiger by email that he had become busy with real life and that TonyTheTiger should become proactive with the review process.
On 22 January 2011: TonyTheTiger revised the WP:FP requirement to make it more inline with other awards and honors on wikipedia including WP:FOUR and WP:CUP .
During a series of edits on 31 March 2011 following the March 28 2011 signpost notice of the discussions to add FL and add FS to the main page , TonyTheTiger set forth the Platinum W Award .
On June 13, 2011: WP:TFL began its trial period of weekly lists on the main page as reported in Wikipedia Signpost .
On July 23, 2014: Crisco 1492 earns 1st Platinum W award.
On March 30, 2024: The award was archived for historical purposes.
On October 05, 2024: Cowboygilbert reopened the award project for future nominations.
On October 08, 2024: Cowboygilbert add two new awards: The Bronze W and the Silver W.
WP:ITN has been on the Main Page since the September 11 attacks in 2001.[ 1]
WP:OTD has been on the Main Page since October 11, 2002 .
The earliest WP:TFA is February 22, 2004, according to Wikipedia:Today's featured article/2004 .
T:DYK dates back to February 22, 2004, when it looked like this .
The earliest WP:POTD is May 14, 2004, according to Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2004 .
The earliest WP:TFL was June 6, 2011, according to Wikipedia:Today's featured list/June 2011 .
WP:TAFI appeared on the main page in from April 15, 2013 and was discontinued prior to the May 20, 2013 update.
^ This is according to legend. The earliest confirmed news story is that of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan on October 10, 2001, here .