The first articles in the Romanian Wikipedia were written in July 2003, with the

first version of the main page being drafted on 12 July. The user interface,
initially in English, started being translated into Romanian by Bogdan Stăncescu
(registered with the username Gutza) as soon as he was given sysop rights.[3] The
same user subsequently contacted several Romanian universities that were available
on the internet, as well as the Romanian Academy, in order to attract new
contributors. His efforts were soon remarked by the Romanian media, who invited him
on several occasions to introduce the project to the public.[4][5] By the end of
2003, the Romanian Wikipedia had exceeded 3,000 articles, ranking 16th among all
Wikipedias. The 10,000th article was written on 13 December 2004, and the 50,000th
on 5 January 2007.

In April 2004, the Romanian Wikipedia supported the launch of the Aromanian
Wikipedia (see Aromanian language).

In June 2004, the Romanian Wikipedia encountered problems concerning its division
and the creation of a separate Moldovan Wikipedia (see Moldovan language). A
Moldovan language version of Wikipedia exists as it was created automatically
together with a larger number of other Wikipedias, because the language had been
assigned a separate ISO 639 code (mo/mol—which were deprecated in November 2008 by
the ISO authorities[6]). At its beginnings, it worked as a portal redirecting to
the Romanian Wikipedia, but in March 2005, it eventually began allowing content
(although only intended for Cyrillic Moldovan/Romanian as it was used before 1989
in the Moldavian SSR and remains in use only in Transnistria), starting big editing
wars and endless discussion. Between December 2006 up to its deletion in January
2018, it was frozen and editing was no longer permitted. This question was raised
from time to time, although users on Wikipedia voted on its closure and its
deletion.[7][8]

The Romanian Wikipedia reached the 100,000 article milestone on 11 January 2008. As
of April 2015, it has 300,000 articles and 330,000 registered users, of which 21
are administrators.

Peculiarities
The logo of the Romanian Wikipedia was slightly different from the logos of other
Wikipedias. The letter И in the logo was replaced with the Romanian letter Ă (A-
breve), further adapting this Wikipedia to the local readership.[9]

Articles can contain small spelling variations, mostly regarding the use of the
letters â and î, both used for the close central unrounded vowel /ɨ/ (cf. Romanian
alphabet). According to the 1993 spelling rules promoted by the Romanian
Academy, /ɨ/ is transcribed as either î, when used as the first or last le