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Announcements

11 August 2008

The 2.5 millionth article on the English edition of Wikipedia is created. While no attempt was made to officially identify the 2.5 millionth article, Joe Connor has been suggested as the possible article.

26 July 2008

WikiProject Lakes reached 5,000 articles with infobox lake. 2700 of those still need illustrations.

5 July 2008

WikiProject Mountains passed 5,000 articles in the last two weeks and reached 5,500 articles with Infobox Mountain.

21 March 2008

Category:Living people passed 260,000 articles (200,000 were reached on 14 June 2007 and 90,000 on 11 May 2006).

6 November 2007

WikiProject Lakes reached 4,000 articles with infobox lake.

21 October

WikiProject Mountains reached 4,000 articles with Infobox Mountain.

9 September

The English Wikipedia article count passed 2.0 million. The official two millionth article by consensus is El Hormiguero.

22 July

The English Wikipedia article count passed 1.9 million.

14 June

Category:Living people reached 200,000 biography articles (90,000 on 11 May 2006)

25 May

The English Wikipedia article count passed 1.8 million.

22 March

The English Wikipedia article count passed 1.7 million.

21 February

Wikipedia's daily Alexa ranking hit 8 for the first time, a new high. [1]

11 January

The English Wikipedia’s revision counter, indicating the total number of edits, has passed 100,000,000.

7 January

Wikipedia's weekly Alexa ranking hit 10 for the first time. Meanwhile, its daily ranking hit 9, a new high.

3 January

Wikipedia's daily Alexa ranking hit 10 again today. Of the total traffic to all Wikipedia sites, the share attributable to en: has now fallen to 54%, demonstrating the rapid growth of the many other Wikipedia language editions, while growth in en: continues unchecked.

2 January

Wikipedia entered 2007 with over 6 million articles in 251 languages, 1560143 of them in English. During 2006, the English Wikipedia contributed 666,906 of the almost 3 million new articles project-wide, which almost doubled in 12 months. Full statistics are now available.

26 December

Wikipedia's Alexa 3-monthly average traffic rank hit a new high of 12, hitting daily rank of 10 twice during December.

Milestone statistics

For more details on these milestones, please see Wikimedia News.

Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
2 000 000 English (9 September 2007)
1 000 000
500 000 German (23 November 2006); French (28 May 2007); Polish (14 May 2008); Japanese (25 June 2008)
200 000 Dutch (24 May 2006); Italian (27 September 2006); Portuguese (30 November 2006); Swedish (23 December 2006); Spanish (10 February 2007); Russian (4 September 2007); Chinese (31 July 2008)
100 000 Finnish (11 February 2007); Norwegian (Bokmål) (24 February 2007); Volapük (7 September 2007); Romanian (11 January 2008); Catalan (18 January 2008); Turkish (3 February 2008); Ukrainian (28 March 2008); Esperanto (15 June 2008); Czech (19 June 2008); Hungarian (17 July 2008); Slovak (27 August 2008)
50 000 Danish (30 September 2006); Hebrew (24 December 2006); Indonesian (1 February 2007); Slovene (18 July 2007); Lithuanian (1 August 2007); Serbian (22 August 2007); Bulgarian (26 December 2007); Arabic (31 December 2007); Korean (4 January 2008); Estonian (4 June 2008)
20 000 Croatian (11 August 2006); Telugu (13 October 2006); Galician (6 December 2006); Cebuano (2 February 2007); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (4 February 2007); Thai (16 March 2007); Greek (17 March 2007); Persian (23 April 2007); Malay (27 April 2007); Newar / Nepal Bhasa (13 June 2007); Vietnamese (17 June 2007); Bishnupriya Manipuri (16 August 2007); Bosnian (30 August 2007); Basque (11 September 2007); Simple English (16 October 2007); Luxembourgish (2 February 2008); Georgian (12 February 2008); Icelandic (15 February 2008); Albanian (19 April 2008); Haitian (22 April 2008); Latin (8 May 2008); Hindi (29 May 2008); Breton (20 June 2008)
10 000 Ido (24 October 2005); Neapolitan (17 June 2006); Bengali (26 September 2006); Lombard (27 February 2007); Serbo-Croatian (10 April 2007); Sundanese (13 April 2007); Tamil (27 April 2007); Javanese (3 May 2007); Marathi (26 May 2007); Macedonian (22 June 2007); Welsh (23 June 2007); Low Saxon (2 July 2007); Sicilian (6 July 2007); Latvian (19 July 2007) ; Azeri (22 July 2007); Occitan (11 September 2007); Kurdish (19 September 2007); Piedmontese (2 October 2007); Tagalog (20 October 2007); Asturian (20 November 2007); Belarusian (15 March 2008); Walloon (20 March 2008); Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) (1 June 2008); Afrikaans (15 June 2008)
5 000 Uzbek (20 August 2006); Ripuarian (24 October 2006); Corsican (22 December 2006); Aragonese (29 December 2006); Chuvash (12 January 2007); Tajik (30 January 2007); Urdu (15 March 2007); Irish (7 May 2007); Venetian (3 July 2007); Swahili (11 July 2007); West Frisian (25 July 2007); Tarantino (2 August 2007); Maori (10 September 2007); Cantonese (23 September 2007); Quechua (31 October 2007); Malayalam (12 December 2007); Kannada (27 December 2007); Yoruba (3 January 2008); Samogitian (24 January 2008); Scottish Gaelic (12 March 2008); Kapampangan (1 April 2008); Yiddish (5 May 2008); Upper Sorbian (24 July 2008)
2 000 Tatar (5 November 2004); Interlingua (19 June 2005); Limburgish (17 May 2006); Alemannic (6 June 2006); Armenian (13 August 2006); Ilokano (15 September 2006); Faroese (7 October 2006); Min Nan (11 October 2006); Norman (14 November 2006); Amharic (22 December 2006); Dutch Low Saxon (11 January 2007); Sanskrit (13 February 2007); Waray-Waray (13 February 2007); Friulian (22 April 2007); Bhojpuri/Bihari (29 April 2007); Banyumasan (7 May 2007); Northern Sami (15 May 2007); Novial (20 May 2007); Pali (7 June 2007); Pangasinan (8 July 2007); Nahuatl (26 July 2007); Scots (18 August 2007); West Flemish (27 August 2007); Ligurian (2 November 2007); Nepali (14 November 2007); Aromanian (22 December 2007); Divehi (28 December 2007); Romansh (29 January 2008); Zazaki (6 February 2008); Wu (17 February 2008); Ossetian (25 February 2008); Kazakh (10 March 2008); Classical Chinese (26 April 2008); Franco-Provençal/Arpitan (2 May 2008); Maltese (5 May 2008); Gujarati (6 August 2008)
1 000 Cornish (8 April 2006); Ladino (13 September 2006); Pennsylvania German (16 October 2006); Voro (4 January 2007); Kashubian (16 February 2007); Tongan (25 April 2007); Pashto (5 August 2007); Bavarian (16 August 2007); Mongolian (24 November 2007); Lingala (1 December 2007); Anglo-Saxon (29 December 2007); Hawaiian (9 February 2008); Turkmen (27 February 2008); Khmer (3 March 2008); Manx (26 March 2008); Interlingue (31 May 2008); Gan (10 June 2008)

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