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===April 2002===
On 8 April, Chuck Smith created an article about Toki Pona on the {{w|English [[Wikipedia}}]], titled "Toki Pona language".<ref>Chuck Smith (8 April 2002). [http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=13 Toki Pona - Wikipedia article]. ''Toki Pona Forums''. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref> AtThe thisarticle's time,existence thewas Englishrepeatedly Wikipediacontested, hadbut onlyit aroundultimately 30became thousanda articles<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htmgood Wikipediaarticle Statisticsand English].was Wikimedia.featured Retrievedon 19the Novembermain 2023.</ref>page (comparedin with around 62019.7 million articles as of November 2023).<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics Statistics]. English Wikipedia. Retrieved 19 November 2023.</ref>
===May 2002===
==2004==
===March–November 2004===
On 31 March, Lang asked on the Wikipedia-l mailing list how to add a Toki Pona language edition of Wikipedia.,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-March/014972.html|title=[Wikipedia-l] Adding a new language|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Sonja Lang|date=2004-03-31|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-September/017330.html|title=[Wikipedia-l] Re: Gothic Wikipedia|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Andre Engels|date=2004-09-19|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> leading to the creation of an official [[Toki Pona Wikipedia]] on 4 April.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015010.html|title=[Wikipedia-l] New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Brion Vibber|date=2003-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> However, it was closed on 16 November.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_C#Closed_wikipedia(s)|title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_C § Closed_wikipedia(s)|website=English Wikipedia|access-date=2023-12-09}}</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=342</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041122013238/http://tokipona.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/lipu_lawa|title={{tok|lipu lawa}}|website={{tok|lipu Wikipesija}}|access-date=2023-12-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Klingon_Wikipedia|title=History of the Klingon Wikipedia|website=Wikimedia}}</ref> It later moved to {{w|Wikicities}} (later Wikia, Fandom) before being independently hosted as {{tok|[[lipu Wikipesija]]}}.
===April 2004===
On 4 April, the official Toki Pona Wikipedia was created under the domain tp.wikipedia.org.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015010.html|title=[Wikipedia-l] New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Brion Vibber|date=2003-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> The choice of this subdomain was debated. Other proposals included <code>art-toki-pona</code>, <ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015019.html|title=[Wikipedia-l] Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Timwi|date=2004-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/VFRKVVPE4BNOCANDFWY3ABOXNTWD42TU/|title=[Wikipedia-l] Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Karl Eichwalder|date=2004-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref>, <code>art-tp</code>, <code>x-toki-pona</code>,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015031.html|title=[Wikipedia-l] Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Evan Prodromou|date=2004-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> and <code>x-tp</code>.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/015024.html|title=[Wikipedia-l] Re: New wikipedias: tpi, tp, io|website=lists.wikimedia.org|author=Ralesk Ne'vennoyx|date=2004-04-04|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref> There were disputes about the address and about the existence of this edition of Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-April/thread.html#start|title=April 2004 Archives by thread|website=lists.wikimedia.org|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-May/thread.html|title=May 2004 Archives by thread|website=lists.wikimedia.org|access-date=2023-11-28}}</ref>
===May 2004===
On 28 May, the Toki Pona Wikipedia reached 100 articles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_News/2004#May_2004|title=Wikimedia News/2004|website=Wikimedia}}</ref> The 100th article was "{{tok|Jan Juta}}".
===November 2004===
On 16 November, Wikipedia cofounder {{w|Jimbo Wales}} closed the Toki Pona Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_C#Closed_wikipedia(s)|title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_C § Closed_wikipedia(s)|website=English Wikipedia|access-date=2023-12-09}}</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=342</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041122013238/http://tokipona.wikipedia.org:80/wiki/lipu_lawa|title={{tok|lipu lawa}}|website={{tok|lipu Wikipesija}}|access-date=2023-12-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Klingon_Wikipedia|title=History of the Klingon Wikipedia|website=Wikimedia}}</ref> It later moved to {{w|Wikicities}} (later Wikia, Fandom).
===Undated===
==2005==
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===January 2005===
On 3 January, the Toki Pona article on the English Wikipedia was nominated for deletion for the first time. Discussion ended on 21 January, and consensus was to keep the article.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona|title=Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toki Pona|website=English Wikipedia|access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref>
==2006==
===May 2007===
On 7 May, Marcos Cramer ({{tok|jan Moku}}) requested a new [[ISO 639-3]] language code <code>tok</code>, with additional supporters including Abel Johannes Kiefte ({{tok|jan Mimoku}}), Helmut Voigt ({{tok|jan Elumutu}}), and Marek Blahuš ({{tok|jan Male}}). The request reported that there were "10-30 fluent speakers; several hundred with reasonable ability".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/change_requests/2007/2007-011.pdf|title=ISO 639-3 Registration Authority|website=iso639-3.sil.org|access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref>
On 30 May, the Toki Pona article on the English Wikipedia was nominated for deletion for the second time. Discussion ended on 6 June, with consensus being to delete the article.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona_(2nd_nomination)|title=Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toki Pona (2nd nomination)|website=English Wikipedia|access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref>
===July 2007===
According to an article published in ''{{w|The Globe and Mail}}'' on 9 July, "[a] Colorado programmer is developing an apocalyptic computer game with Toki Pona as the spoken language", "[a]n Israeli-German singer and member of the Stuttgart Chamber Choir is including it in a concert of musical pieces composed in constructed languages, alongside Esperanto and ''Star Trek''’s Klingon", and "Pekka Roponen, a psychiatrist at the central hospital of Hameenlinnan, in southern Finland, … is studying the language’s usefulness in treating patients, having them keep track of their daily thoughts in Toki Pona."<ref>{{cite web|url=//theglobeandmail.com/technology/canadian-has-people-talking-about-lingo-she-created/article20399052|title=Canadian has people talking about lingo she created|author=Roberts, Siobhan|date=2007-07-09|website={{w|The Globe and Mail}}|access-date=2023-12-28|quote=}}</ref>
Additionally on 9 July, the deletion of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia was discussed in a deletion review. On 14 July, the deletion was overturned "in light of new information" upon discussion in the deletion review.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2007_July_9|title=Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 July 9|website=English Wikipedia|access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref> On 25 July, the deleted Toki Pona article on Wikipedia moved back to mainspace.
==2008==
Toki Pona is a language exploring the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, designed to encourage positive thoughts.
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===March 2010===
On 13 March, it was requested to check whether the good article (GA) status of Wikipedia's Toki Pona article was in need of reassessment. The reviewer criticized many unreferenced sections, inconsistent citation formatting, overreliance on primary sources and personal websites, and too much unnecessary detail. The assessment was placed on hold to give contributors a chance to improve the article. The only reply was by a self-described major contributor to the article, who said "it doesn't feel particularly GA to me. More fun than encyclopedic".<ref name=":12">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA2</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sonjaaa&oldid=371038617#GA_reassessment_of_Toki_Pona</ref> On 20 March, the article was delisted from "Language and literature good articles".<ref name=":12" />
As of 21 March, "[a]fter being closed and its database locked some time ago, the Tokipona Wikipedia ha[d] been completely removed."<ref>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News/2010#March_2010</ref><ref>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects/Deletion_of_Toki_Pona_Wikimedia_projects</ref>
===June 2010===
==2012==
===February 2012===
On 5 February, the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion for the third time.<ref name=":0">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona_(3rd_nomination)</ref> Discussion ended on 13 February, and consensus was to keep the article.<ref name=":0" />
===May 2012===
===March 2013===
On 10 March, Christopher Huff created the (unofficial) ''Toki Pona Sign Language''.<ref>https://chuff.wordpress.com/tpsl</ref><ref>https://chuff.tumblr.com/post/45011424771/chris-huffs-toki-pona-sign-language</ref><ref>https://thelabyrinthmaker.tumblr.com/post/132632048934/chris-huffs-toki-pona-sign-language</ref><ref>http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=2199</ref>
On 15 March, the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion for the fourth time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Toki_Pona_(4th_nomination)|title=Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toki Pona (4th nomination)|website=English Wikipedia|access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref><ref name="wikipedia-deletion-forums">{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=2203|title=toki pona article on wikipedia up for deletion|website=Toki Pona Forums|name={{tok|jan Mato}}|username=janMato|date=2013-03-16|access-date=2023-12-28}}</ref> Discussion ended on 23 March; consensus was to keep the article.
===July 2013===
===March 2018===
On 23 March, Langfocus published a 13-minute video, "Toki Pona: 'The Language of Good' " on YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4y7tf3VJAM</ref> This interested a great number of people in Toki Pona and in joining the Facebook groups, and the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia reached a peak in viewership.<ref>https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2018-02-24&end=2018-04-24&pages=Toki_Pona Before the video usually about 200 people visited the page every day. On the day of the publication it is 650, the next day the number reaches as high as 1819, and the two following days, 997 and 633, respectively.</ref>
On 27 March, ''Oxford Dictionaries Blog'' published the article "Exploring Toki Pona: do we need more than 120 words?" by Simon Thomas.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190511184141/https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2018/03/27/toki-pona-invented-language-120-words/</ref>
==2019==
===January 2019===
On 8 January 2019, the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia was nominated as a language and literature good article for the second time.<ref name=":16">https://tinyurl.com/y2qy24pk</ref> The nomination process continued throughout most of the year. As of 3 September, the reviewer of the good article nomination of the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia was not responding,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA3</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:IJzeren_Jan#Talk:Toki_Pona/GA3</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations&diff=908513028&oldid=908492735</ref> so another reviewer took his place.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations&diff=913905283&oldid=9138964</ref> Later on 30 September, the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia passed good article criteria, becoming a language and literature good article.<ref name=":16" /><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Toki_Pona&diff=918875037&oldid=913905169</ref><ref name=":18">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona/GA4</ref> After this, the former reviewer appears with additional comments.<ref name=":18" />
On 12 January, {{tok|jan Tepu}} created {{tp|linja pona}} version 4, wanting to merge his updates with {{tok|jan Same}}'s version 3. He "updated the font to use OpenType features to dynamically compose compound glyphs, rather than relying on including precomposed glyphs in the font. As a result, this version allows over 6,000 new compound glyphs".<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y2ymb642</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y27puqmw</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5ty5eqw</ref> On 15 January, {{tok|jan Tepu}} opened the {{tp|tomo pi sitelen pona}} website with the first texts using {{tp|linja pona}} version 4.<ref name=":17">http://archive.fo/HeIc8</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y5z563lm</ref> He added {{tp|sitelen pona}} lessons from scratch and a dictionary to the website on 28 January.<ref name=":17" /><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4vlhpc2</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxjr7b3d</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yyrsq9qr</ref>
===October 2019===
On 4 October 2019, some facts from the Toki Pona article on Wikipedia were nominated to appear in the "Did you know …" column on the Wikipedia main page.<ref name=":19">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Toki_Pona</ref> As of 13 October, an editor had indicated willingness to review the nomination.<ref name=":19" /><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Toki_Pona&diff=921067761&oldid=919691978</ref> It was approved on 28 October<ref name=":19" /><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Toki_Pona&diff=923370531&oldid=923282973</ref> and later appeared on 4 November,<ref name=":16" /><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions#5_November_2019</ref> generating over 9,000 views (compared to about 280–380 views on a regular day).<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Statistics#November_2019</ref><ref>https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-10-20&end=2019-11-05&pages=Toki_Pona</ref>
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Did you know ... that Toki Pona, a constructed language devised in 2001, uses only around 120 to 125 root words?
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On 21 October, {{tok|jan sitelen_ike}} published the first of the {{tp|musi nimi}} word puzzles.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/dl0mtn/ma_nimi_musi/</ref>
===2020-01-07===
{{tok|jan Lili}} posts a one-page "cheat-sheet" for easily learning the bare basics of Toki Pona.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y3v882q2</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/y65foyxt</ref> Comparisons are made to the {{tp|lipu lili pona}} mini-booklet.<ref>https://tinyurl.com/y4sr3chl</ref><ref>https://tinyurl.com/yxvf85ab</ref>
===2020-01-30===
The Toki Pona article on Wikipedia is translated into Slovak and assigned a Good article status on the Slovak Wikipedia version.<ref>https://sk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toki_pona&diff=6975108&oldid=6394863</ref><ref>https://sk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Zoznam_dobr%C3%BDch_%C4%8Dl%C3%A1nkov&diff=6975154&oldid=6876304</ref><ref>https://sk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toki_pona&diff=6975264&oldid=6975190</ref>
===2020-02-01===
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