Wikipedia and the 2008 US elections/Barack Obama

Article history
The Barack Obama article began on 18 March, 2004, created by an unregistered editor. The article was edited a total of 335 times during 2004.

In 2005, the article was edited 461 times.

In 2006, the article was edited   times.

In 2007, there were   edits.

In 2008, there were   edits.

In January, 2009, there were   edits.

Basic questions

 * 1) was the article started as a stub? if so, how long did it take to lose the stub tag?
 * 2) did wikipedia have an article on the subject before the election? if so, compare the article before and after
 * 3) were daughter articles created? if so, when? were all of the daughter articles kept?
 * 4) what was the relationship between talk page edits and article edits?
 * 5) were there edit wars? if so, what were they about, and did they coincide with campaign events?
 * 6) was the article protected or placed under probation? if so, why and for how long?
 * 7) did the campaigns themselves edit the articles?
 * 8) was the article itself ever in the news?

Timeline
Development needed for a timeline with edits by day, week, or month, sorted by:
 * 1) anon, user, and sysop
 * 2) content edits, minor edits (copyedits and so on), reverted edits, vandal edits, reverted vandal edits
 * 3) mark major campaign events on the timeline to see if there is any correlation between number of edits and news events