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  • The Occitan Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles, becoming the 75th Wikipedia to reach that milestone.
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  • The Persian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
  • Wikipedia is the 17th most-visited website on the Internet, reaching more audience than Google Japan, according to Alexa.
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  • The Indonesian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
  • The Wikibooks has updated the main portal page. Wikibooks has also entered the top 4,000 websites on the internet, according to Alexa.
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  • Wikipedia is the 18th most-visited website on the Internet, hitting more web pages than Blogger.com, according to Alexa.
  • The Danish Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
  • The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 15,000 registered users.
  • The Spanish Wikisource has reached 10,000 articles.
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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)
1,500,000
1,000,000 English (1 March 2006)
900,000
800,000
700,000
600,000
500,000
400,000 German (18 May 2006)
300,000
250,000 French (4 March 2006)
200,000 Polish (26 January 2006); Japanese (9 April 2006);
150,000 Dutch (18 March 2006); Swedish (6 April 2006); Italian (10 April 2006);
100,000 Portuguese (26 January 2006); Spanish (8 March 2006)
90,000
80,000
70,000 Russian (14 April 2006)
60,000 Chinese (15 March 2006); Finnish (2 May 2006); Norwegian (6 May 2006)
50,000
40,000 Esperanto (5 February 2006); Danish (13 March 2006)
30,000 Hebrew (4 January 2006); Romanian (11 March 2006); Serbian (2 April 2006); Slovak (4 April 2006); Hungarian (26 April 2006); Czech (29 April 2006); Catalan (6 May 2006)
20,000 Ukrainian (1 October 2005); Bulgarian (24 November 2005); Slovenian (7 May 2006); Korean (12 Feb 2006); Indonesian (28 March 2006); Turkish (29 March 2006);
15,000 Estonian (12 February 2006); Lithuanian (24 March 2006); Croatian (24 March 2006); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (15 April 2006); ; Galician (1 May 2006)
10,000 Ido (24 October 2005); Malay (21 December 2005, 23 December 2005); Arabic (25 December 2005); Persian (18 February 2006); Thai (14 March 2006); Icelandic (6 May 2006); Greek (15 May 2006)
5,000 Walloon (10 June 2004); Luxembourgish (11 July 2004); Simple English (27 September 2005); Bosnian (25 November 2005); Albanian (28 December 2005); Basque (26 January 2006); Vietnamese (28 January 2006); Georgian (23 February 2006); Breton (11 March 2006); Afrikaans (24 March 2006); Macedonian (31 March 2006); Latin (6 May 2006)
2,000 Welsh (15 August 2004); Tatar (November 2004); Asturian (27 November 2004); Interlingua (20 June 2005); Sicilian (26 August 2005); Latvian (15 October 2005); Kurdish (15 October 2005); Irish (21 October 2005); Western Frisian (29 October 2005); Neapolitan (6 November 2005); Tagalog (20 November 2005); Serbo-Croatian (20 November 2005); Telugu (23 November 2005); Belarusian (6 December 2005); Low Saxon (27 December 2005); Azeri (15 January 2006); Marathi (2 February 2006); Tamil (5 February 2006); Corsican (1 March 2006); Aragonese (3 March 2006); Chuvash (9 March 2006); Occitan (6 April 2006); Ripuarian (30 April 2006) ;Limburgish (17 May 2006)
1,000 Scots Gaelic (7 January 2005); Hindi (25 January 2005); Javanese (7 May 2005); Ossetian (20 May 2005); Southern Min (30 June 2005); Kannada (30 August 2005); Faroese (2 September 2005); Alemannic (13 October 2005); Scots (29 October 2005); Cebuano (30 December 2005, 22 January 2006); Waray-Waray (21 February 2006); Yiddish (12 March 2006); Cornish (8 April 2006); Haitian (14 April 2006); Bengali (14 April 2006); Ilokano (18 April 2006); Kapampangan (5 May 2006); Arpitan (17 May 2006)
500 Sundanese (4 September 2004); Armenian (5 April 2005); Kashubian (14 May 2005); Northern Sami (30 May 2005); Sanskrit (19 August 2005); Anglo-Saxon (14 September 2005); Urdu (19 September 2005); Friulian (22 Feb 2006); Pennsylvania German (17 April 2006); Malayalam (4 May 2006); Pushto (5 May 2006); Norman (10 May 2006)
100 Kashmiri (4 October 2004); Maori (5 October 2004); Interlingue (18 November 2004); Tok Pisin (15 April 2005); Gujarati (19 May 2005); Maltese (4 June 2005); Nauruan (17 June 2005); Nahuatl (19 June 2005); Mongolian (3 July 2005); Malagasy (14 July 2005); Romansh (19 July 2005); Lingala (31 July 2005); Moldovan (7 August 2005); Võro (30 October 2005); Amharic (19 November 2005); Swahili (20 November 2005); Udmurt (22 November 2005); Uzbek (O'zbek) (15 January 2006); Lojban (23 January 2006); Sardinian (3 February 2006); Venetian (11 February 2006); Ladino (21 February 2006); Dhivehi (4 March 2006); Bashkir (29 March 2006); Cantonese (30 March 2006); Dutch Low Saxon (16 April 2006); Turkmen (18 April 2006); Gothic (23 April 2006); Piedmontese (15 May 2006); Tetun (15 May 2006); Kyrgyz (17 May 2006); Wolof (18 May 2006)

Wiktionaries

Wiktionaries by number of articles
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
150,000 French (23 February 2006)
100,000 English (8 November 2005)
50,000 Chinese (5 May 2006); Ido (12 May 2006)
40,000 Polish (18 February 2006); Italian (21 April 2006)
30,000
20,000 Bulgarian (28 April 2005); Dutch (29 September 2005); Finnish (22 April 2006); German (6 May 2006);
15,000 Galician (22 September 2005); Greek (20 April 2006)
10,000 Portuguese (30 December 2005); Kurdish (1 January 2006); Hungarian (19 March 2006); Estonian (28 Apr 2006);
5,000 Sicilian (4 February 2005); Swedish (17 October 2005); Japanese (24 January 2006); Slovenian (7 February 2006); Spanish (18 March 2006); Korean (30 March 2006); Russian (7 May 2006);
2,000 Latin (7 June 2004); Norwegian (23 July 2005); Hebrew (18 February 2006); Serbian (31 March 2006)
1,000 Hindi (20 February 2005); Corsican (15 May 2005); Danish (26 May 2005); Anglo-Saxon (24 June 2005); Turkish (21 September 2005); Tamil (25 November 2005); Persian (29 November 2005); Afrikaans (6 March 2006); Icelandic (20 March 2006); Vietnamese (6 May 2006)
500 Croatian (21 February 2005); Czech (9 November 2005); Slovak (28 December 2005); Arabic (23 January 2006); Low Saxon (11 March 2006); Indonesian (14 March 2006)
100 Romanian; Interlingua (24 February 2005); Esperanto (6 July 2004); Gujarati (28 November 2004); Catalan (5 December 2004); Bosnian (5 May 2005); Interlingue (12 June 2005); Ukrainian (2 September 2005; Kazakh (1 October 2005); Yiddish (8 November 2005); Malayalam (17 November 2005); Welsh (18 February 2006); Thai (13 March 2006); Sindhi (18 March 2006); Macedonian (26 April 2006)

Wikiquotes

Wikiquotes by number of pages
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
5,000 English (4 November 2005); German (9 March 2006)
2,000 French (28 April 2005); Bulgarian (23 September 2005); Polish (11 November 2005); Italian (26 November 2005); Portuguese (23 December 2005); Russian (7 March 2006)
1,000 Spanish (28 December 2005); Slovenian (4 February 2006); Bosnian (5 February 2006); Slovak (9 March 2006)
500 Indonesian (23 December 2005); Hebrew (15 January 2006); Chinese (19 March 2006); Japanese (5 May 2006)
100 Norwegian; Swedish; Dutch (5 February 2005); Czech (1 June 2005); Finnish (14 August 2005); Esperanto (28 August 2005); Arabic (15 September 2005); Hungarian (11 November 2005); Persian (4 December 2005); Galician (12 January 2006); Greek (26 January 2006); Turkish (11 February 2006); Kurdish (14 February 2006); Lithuanian (19 February 2006)

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 German (19 May 2006)
2,000 German (4 July 2005)
1,000 French (14 July 2005); Spanish (3 January 2006); Portuguese (6 February 2006); Polish (2 March 2006)
500 Italian (10 December 2005); Dutch (19 December 2005); Japanese (15 January 2006); Swedish (31 March 2006); Hungarian (4 April 2006);
100 Hebrew (May 2005); Danish (27 June 2005); Korean (6 June 2005); Russian (18 April 2005); Finnish (8 July 2005); Esperanto (21 July 2005); Czech (July 2005); Chinese (August 2005); Anglo-Saxon (27 October 2005); Slovak (2 November 2005); Arabic (14 November 2005); Tamil (December 2005); Galician (December 2005); Catalan (2 February 2006); Bulgarian (3 March 2006); Macedonian (8 April 2006); Indonesian; Thai;

Wikinews

Wikinews by number of pages
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
5,000 English (Apr 30 2006);
2,000 German (13 Sep 2005); Swedish (27 March 2006) Polish (16 May 2006)
1,000 Polish (31 July 2005); Italian (5 December 2005); Portuguese (28 November 2005); Spanish (27 December 2005)
500 Japanese (24 October 2005); French (24 November 2005)
100 Romanian (27 April 2005); Dutch (27 May 2005); Ukrainian (12 September 2005); Russian (20 December 2005); Serbian (19 March 2006); Chinese (24 March 2006)

Wikisources

Wikisource by number of pages
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
20,000 English (27 November 2005)
15,000
10,000 French (1 February 2006); Spanish (13 March 2006)
5,000
2,000 German; Romanian; Croatian; Polish (28 December 2005); Chinese (22 February 2006)
1,000 Latin (23 October 2005); Italian (21 December 2005); Russian (31 January 2006); Turkish (18 February 2006); Hebrew (23 April 2006); Portuguese (11 May 2006)
500 Japanese; Arabic (19 October 2005); Hebrew (23 October 2005); Serbian (5 February 2006); Swedish (6 February 2006); Portuguese
100 Danish; Greek; Dutch; Korean (27 September 2005)

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