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<h1> The <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net">phpMyAdmin</a> project is thrilled to
  celebrate fifteen years of phpMyAdmin </h1>

<p>
  The phpMyAdmin project was &ldquo;born&rdquo; on the 9th of September, 1998, when
  Tobias Ratschiller released version 0.9.0. The project has grown to be one of the
  primary tools for administering MySQL and MySQL-like databases, with over 200,000
  direct downloads per month (and countless more users who use a prepackaged
  installation or use a package manager for installation).
</p>

<p>
  The phpMyAdmin project has grown to include code from 669 contributors and the
  <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/team.php">development team</a>
  has grown from one to nine active members, several Google Summer of Code students,
  and countless others
  who contribute code fixes, bug reports, and translations. There are currently
  <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/translations.php">69 language
  translations</a> available, most of which are performed by members of the
  community. By lines of code, the project has grown from 13,496 to 508,761 lines.
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<p>Please join us in celebrating fifteen years of phpMyAdmin! Please send us your
  success stories, preferably using the Sourceforge <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/#reviews">review form</a>
  or by:
  <ul>
    <li>Tweeting <code>@phpma</code> and/or using the <code>#pma15</code> hashtag</li>
    <li>Writing on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/PhpMyAdmin/157021164334486">Facebook wall</a></li>
    <li>Writing us <a href="https://plus.google.com/+phpmyadmin">on Google+</a></li>
  </ul>
</p>

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<p>
  By the numbers:
  <ul>
    <li>Codebase size: 508,761 lines</li>
    <li>Number of overall contributors: 669</li>
    <li>Members of development team: 9</li>
    <li><a href="http://www.ohloh.net/p/phpmyadmin/estimated_cost">Estimated effort</a>: 136 person-years</li>
    <li><a href="http://www.ohloh.net/p/phpmyadmin/estimated_cost">Estimated cost:</a>: $7,485,316</li>
    <li>Number of translations:69</li>
  </ul>
</p>

<p>The phpMyAdmin project is one of the top
  tools for administrating a MySQL database from a web browser and has won
  <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/awards.php">many awards,
  including "MySQL Application of the Year" at the 2013 MySQL Community Awards.
  For more information on the history of phpMyAdmin, see the project
  <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/about.php">history page</a>
  this <a href="https://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2002-12.php">SourceForge Project of the Month interview</a>
  from 2002.
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