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In particular, this page lists article-count milestones. Recommended ones are 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k increments to 20k, 10k increments to 100k, 25k increments to 250k, 50k increments to 500k, and 100k increments to 1000k. Try mixing things up with other milestones, such as active users or new articles per day.

Meta:Babel provides a place for general discussion.

See also : Wikimedia hardware status, Goings-on

October 2005

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  • The Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles. Dear administrators, I think it's a good idea to make a backup on this point. Last backup was done on 19 July 2005.

September 2005

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  • The Nauruan Wikipedia has reached 200 articles, on the moment that the wiki really is growing in the good way with the help of various native Nauruans.
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  • The Slovak Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
  • The new Yahoo!-hosted server farm in Seoul [yaseo] is now in the process of being commissioned by Wikimedia's tireless developer team. [1] When up and running, the Seoul system will be the Wikimedia Foundation's fourth active server farm, adding to the current server farms in Tampa, Paris, and Amsterdam.
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  • The Italian Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles amd becomes bigger than Dutch Wikipedia.
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  • The Ido Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles. Our 5,000th article is on the number 5,000. Ha.

August 2005

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  • The Czech Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
  • The Dutch/Belgian wikipedians had a local informal meeting. A (modified) picture of the people present, can be found here. Please note the person who was not present.
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July 2005

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  • The English Wikipedia has now hit 10.00 edits per page, showing a continuing increase in the quality of our articles.
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  • The Chinese Wikipedia has total over 100,000 pages, articles over 35,000, register user over 27,000.
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  • The English Wikiquote has reached 4,000 articles. The 4,000th article is by Thomas A. Bailey, an American historian. There are 10 sysops, from around 4,200 registered users. Half of the submissions are posted anonymously. The current trend is to contribute quotes from TV shows and movies.
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Projects by number of articles/pages

Wikipedias

Wikipedias by number of articles
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
700,000 English (25 August 2005)
600,000
500,000
400,000
300,000
250,000 German (28 June 2005)
200,000
150,000 French (18 August 2005)
100,000 Japanese (11 February 2005); Swedish (27 August 2005); Italian (9 September 2005); Polish (16 September 2005)
90,000 Dutch (September 7 2005)
80,000
70,000 Portuguese (26 August 2005);
60,000 Spanish (11 August 2005);
50,000
40,000 Chinese (6 September 2005)
30,000 Norwegian (Bokmål) (11 July 2005); Finnish (16 August 2005) ; Danish (18 August 2005) ; Russian (23 August 2005)
20,000 Esperanto (22 January 2005); Hebrew (29 May 2005); Ukrainian (1 October 2005);
15,000 Bulgarian (18 April 2005); Catalan (22 June 2004); Slovenian (30 July 2005); Hungarian (20 August 2005); Czech (28 August 2005); Slovak (14 September 2005)
10,000 Romanian (11 December 2004); Serbian (24 March 2005); Estonian (14 May 2005); Indonesian (31 May 2005); Korean (5 June 2005); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (7 August 2005)
5,000 Croatian (13 January 2005); Galician (30 April 2005); Walloon (10 June 2004); Malay (29 June 2004); Lithuanian (4 July 2004); Luxembourgish (11 July 2004); Greek (20 August 2005); Turkish (23 August 2005); Arabic (26 August 2005); Ido (2 September 2005); Persian (19 September 2005); Simple English (27 September 2005)
2,000 Afrikaans (21 February 2004); Basque (March 2004); Latin (21 March 2004); Welsh (15 August 2004); Tatar (November 2004); Asturian (27 November 2004); Icelandic (21 February 2005); Bosnian (29 March 2005); Thai (20 May 2005); Interlingua (20 June 2003); Georgian (20 June 2005); Macedonian (8 July 2005); Vietnamese (7 August 2005); Sicilian (26 August 2005); Albanian (20 September 2005);
1,000 Western Frisian (6 June 2004); Kurdish (13 September 2004); Scots Gaelic (7 January 2005); Hindi (25 January 2005); Low Saxon (30 January 2005); Belarusian (21 February 2005); Latvian (28 February 2005); Javanese (7 May 2005); Ossetian (20 May 2005); Marathi (2 June 2005); Irish (17 June 2005); Southern Min (30 June 2005); Tagalog (2 July 2005); Tamil (13 August 2005); Telugu (17 August 2005); Limburgish (25 August 2005); Kannada (30 August 2005); Faeroese (2 September 2005); Breton (19 September 2005)
500 Sundanese (4 September 2004); Occitan (24 November 2004); Armenian (5 April 2005); Kashubian (14 May 2005); Alemannic (15 May 2005); Aragonese (20 May 2005); Northern Sami (30 May 2005); Corsican (19 June 2005); Chuvash (20 July 2005); Cornish (7 August 2005); Sanskrit (October 2004, 19 August 2005); Serbo-Croatian (24 August 2005); Anglo-Saxon (September 14, 2005); Urdu (19 September 2004)
100 Maori (5 October 2004); Kashmiri (4 October 2004); Interlingue (18 November 2004); Malayalam (7 December 2004); Bengali (23 February 2005); Tok Pisin (15 April 2005); Gujarati (19 May 2005); Maltese (4 June 2005); Haitian Creole (8 June 2005); Nauruan (17 June 2005); Nahuatl (19 June 2005); Yiddish (28 June 2005); Mongolian (3 July 2005); Malagasy (14 July 2005); Scots (18 July 2005); Romansh (19 July 2005); Lingala (31 July 2005); Cebuano (1 August 2005); Moldovan (7 August 2005); Kapampangan (30 September 2005)

Wiktionaries

Wiktionaries by number of articles
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
90,000 English (14 September 2005)
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000 Polish (28 June 2005); Italian (5 August 2005)
20,000 Bulgarian (28 April 2005); Ido (12 August 2005)
15,000 Dutch (1 April 2005) Galician (22 september 2005)
10,000 Finnish (12 August 2005); French (28 August 2005)
5,000 Sicilian (4 February 2005); Hungarian (9 March 2005); German (6 June 2005); Estonian (26 June 2005); Portuguese (25 July 2005); Kurdish (3 August 2005)
2,000 Swedish (29 January 2005); Japanese (3 February 2005); Latin (7 June 2004); Spanish (11 July 2005); Norwegian (23 July 2005); Slovenian (21 August 2005)
1,000 Russian (10 February 2005); Hindi (20 February 2005); Corsican (15 May 2005); Danish (26 May 2005); Korean (11 July 2005); Hebrew (6 August 2005); Chinese (12 August 2005)
500 Turkish (19 November 2004); Croatian (21 February 2005)
100 Romanian; Interlingua (24 February 2005); Esperanto (6 July 2004); Gujarati (28 November 2004); Catalan (5 December 2004); Arabic (1 February 2005); Serbian (5 April 2005); Vietnamese (7 April 2005); Czech (11 April 2005); Thai (15 April 2005); Bosnian (5 May 2005); Interlingue (12 June 2005); Low Saxon (25 July 2005); Icelandic (7 August 2005); Ukrainian (2 September 2005)

Wikiquotes

Wikiquotes by number of pages
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
5,000
2,000 English; German (6 February 2005); French (28 April 2005); Bulgarian (23 September 2005)
1,000 Polish (22 March 2005); Portuguese (19 July 2005); Italian (21 August 2005)
500 Spanish (24 March 2005)
100 Chinese (26 December 2004); Japanese (17 January 2005); Dutch (5 February 2005); Hebrew (10 May 2005); Czech (1 June 2005); Russian (17 June 2005); Indonesian (11 August 2005); Finnish (14 August 2005)

Wikibooks

Wikibooks by number of book modules
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
10,000 English (28 July 2005)
5,000
2,000 German (4 July 2005)
1,000 French (14 July 2005)
500 Spanish (20 June 2005)
100 Japanese; Polish; Dutch; Hebrew; Swedish; Portuguese (24 March 2005); Danish (27 June 2005); Italian (11 May 2005); Korean (6 June 2005); Russian (18 April 2005);Finnish (8 July 2005)

Wikinews

Wikinews by number of pages
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
2,000 English (23 May 2005); German (13 Sep 2005)
1,000 Polish (31 July 2005)
500 Portuguese (19 June 2005); Spanish (13 August 2005)
100 Swedish (7 February 2005); Italian (20 April 2005); Romanian (27 April 2005); French (3 May 2005); Dutch (27 May 2005); Japanese (31 July 2005)

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