Wikipedia:Milestones

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If your announcement might be of interest to other Wikipedias, or is an announcement about a milestone for another language Wikipedia, please place a copy on the "Wikimedia News" page of our multilanguage discussion site.

To see information about Wikipedia in the news, see Wikipedia:Press coverage.

Software status

Various MediaWiki features are currently disabled, including Special: pages to generate lists of orphans, short pages, etc. For a full status report see: Wikipedia:Software status

Current news

February 19, 2004

  • The English Wikipedia has now reached 210,000 articles. It took 17 days since the milestone of 200,000 articles was reached on 2nd February. This is the English Wikipedia's fastest ever period of organic growth - only in October 2002, when 38,000 articles were added in a month thanks to robot-assisted submissions, has the wiki grown more quickly.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways was launched on Jan. 27. Unfortunately, Spikey was very silly and neglected to put in on the Announcements page. Or the WikiProjects page. Heh. But it's here (and there) now, so get you motor runnin', and join in on the highway...project. The Hats and Headgear one was better, wasn't it?

February 18, 2004

February 16, 2004

February 13, 2004

  • The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
  • Wikipedia is now running on the new servers. The DNS records have now been updated to point to the new servers; if you are having problems, please consider re-loading the page, or re-starting your browser program. There may be short periods of downtime or odd behavior whilst the new system is being tuned: please be patient!

February 12, 2004

  • WikiProject Cetaceans has reached a major milestone. We now have an article about every species of whale, dolphin and porpoise. This has meant the writing of about 60 substantial new articles since the project started in September 2003. However there are still plenty of plans for improvements (see the project page for details), and articles are sure to need copyediting so feel free to join in.
  • The new Wikipedia servers are being brought online.
  • The Croatian Wikipedia has reached its 2,000th article - about the Serbian language. Let's hope this becomes a sign of tolerance and cooperation!

February 9, 2004

February 8, 2004

  • Yippeee!! The Croatian Wikipedia has reached its first 1,000 articles! Yep, watch out, English Wikipedia, we're coming!
  • German Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles, just seconds prior to the server freeze.
  • The arbitration committee has started its opening session of deliberations based on the arbitration policy ratification vote.
  • The English Wikipedia reached 2,500,000 edits since the software was upgraded in July 2002. This has been done in the 2 months since 2,000,000 edits were reached in December 6, 2003. That is roughly 60,000 edits in a week, or assuming 12 edits in an hour per person, 5,000 person hours per week. This is the equivelent of 125 full time editors.

February 7, 2004

  • The Wikipedia database was locked for read-only access from 8 February 05:00 UTC = 9pm PST, 11 pm CST, midnight EST, 5am GMT, 6am CET. This should have only lasted for a couple of hours, and was necessary to allow a major system upgrade.
  • Malay Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
  • Romanian Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.
  • Dutch Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles. This is almost precisely half a year after reaching 10,000.
  • Polish Wikipedia has reached 23,000 articles.

February 3, 2004

February 2, 2004

  • English Wikipedia reached 200,000 articles at 00:42 UTC. It's one small edit for a wiki, one great leap for humankind. It took 29 days of real time since 190,000 articles (compared to 27 days from 180,000) and about 9-10 months of real time since 100,000 articles - despite lots of weird server stuff. For perspective, it took nine months for the English Wikipedia to reach its first 10,000 articles and about 27 months to reach its first 100,000 articles. See Wikipedia:Celebrating 200,000.
  • The multilingual statistics of the Wikipedia have been enhanced and newly structured. Watch those Wikipedias grow and take a look at the charts! (This is indeed intended as further motivation for the growth of the non-English speaking Wikipedias)

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