Wikimedia News/2005

2004

Wikimedia News

2006

December 2005

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• The Swedish Wikipedia has reached 125,000 articles.

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Aragonese Wikipedia 1,000th entry logo

• The Aragonese Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles. The 1,000^th article is Ziudá de Panamá.
• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries. The 10,000^th entry is Readiness.

  

  Portuguese Wiktionary 10,000th entry logo

• The Cebuano Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles. The 1,000^th article is Leon Kilat.

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• The Ido Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.

28

• The Albanian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles, after the Roboti bot generated thousands of stubs for years, decades, and centuries this week.
• The Spanish Wikiquote has reached 1,000 articles.

27

• The Spanish Wikinews has reached 1,000 articles. The 1,000^th article is Una comisión diplomática se reúne próximamente con las FARC.
• The Low German Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Colognian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

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• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.
• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 500 articles with an entry on the Dutch word vrede, meaning "peace".
• The French Wiktionary has reached 80,000 entries.

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• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikiquote has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Malay Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles again, most likely with MyKad, after falling from the milestone on December 22.
• The Indonesian Wikiquote has reached 500 articles.

22

• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 150,000 pages in all, including over 50,000 articles.

21

• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.
• The Malay Wikipedia reached 10,000 articles briefly, but the article count then fell to just below 10,000 on December 22. The milestone article was believed to be Pertempuran Balikpapan.

20

• The Luxembourgish Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

19

• The Dutch Wikibooks has reached 500 modules.

17

• The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.

14

• The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

13

• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

  

  The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

• The French Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.

11

• The fourth quarter 2005 Wikimedia fundraising drive will be held from Friday 16 December to Friday 6 January. Please help translate at: Fund drives/2005/Q4 planning/Translations.

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• The Italian Wikibooks has reached 500 modules.
• The Breton Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.

8

• The Swedish Wikinews has reached 500 published articles.

6

• The Chinese Wikisource has reached 1000 text-units.
• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
• The Belarusian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

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• Please help translate messages for the next fund drive. See Fund drives/2005/Q4 planning/Translations
• The Italian Wikinews has reached 1,000 published articles.

4

• The French Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles. The 200,000^th article is George Corliss.

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• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

2

• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

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• The Alemannic Wikibooks was created as separate namespace on Alemannic Wikipedia.

November 2005

29

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has over 20,000 pages in all. Administrator Á Lý Sa (vi:) created the milestone page, Thảo luận Thành viên:Hieptri, when welcoming a new user to the project.
• The French Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.
• The Persian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.

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• The Portuguese Wikinews has reached 1,000 published articles.

27

• The German Wikipedia has reached 35,000 articles. The 35,000^th article is Computeranimationsfilm.
• The English Wikisource has reached 20,000 text-units.
• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

26

• The Italian Wikiquote has reached 2,000 articles.

25

• The Bosnian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

  

  Romanian Wikipedia 15,000th article aniversary logo

• The Tamil Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.

24

• The French Wikinews has reached 500 published articles.

23

• The Telugu Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

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• Wikipedia is #8 in the Nielsen/NetRatings list for Top 10 Online News & Information Destinations. [1] (Wikipedia is the first open citizen-powered site to crack the top ten, says Steve Rubel. [2])
• The Udmurt Wikipedia has reached 100 articles. The 100^th article is Афганистан.

  

  The Udmurt Wikipedia has 100 articles.

21

• The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles. The 20,000^th article is Csér (település).

20

• The Swahili Wikipedia has reached 100 articles. The 100^th article is George Weah.
• The Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Tagalog Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

19

• The Amharic Wikipedia has reached 100 articles. The 100^th article is ስዋሂሊ.
• The French Wiktionary has reached 25,000 entries.

18

• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles. The 20,000^th article is Diputat. See press release in English.

17

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.

13

• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
• The Arabic Wikibooks has reached 100 modules.
• The Galician Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

12

• The Icelandic Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

11

• The Hungarian Wikiquote has reached 100 articles.
• The Polish Wikiquote has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Italian Wikisource has reached 500 text-units.

10

• The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Finnish Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries.

9

• The Czech Wiktionary has reached 500 entries.

8

• The English Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries.
• The Yiddish Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.

6

• The Breton Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

5

• The Azerbaijani Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.

4

• The English Wikiquote now has over 5,000 articles.

3

• The Turkish Wikipedia now has over 5,000 registered users.

2

• The Afrikaans Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.

1

• The English Wikipedia has reached 800,000 articles.

October 2005

31

• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

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• The ⧼Project-localized-name-fiu-vrowiki⧽ has reached 100 articles. The 100^th article is Romaania lipp.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has over 3,000 registered users, with Huybvsc being the 3,000^th. This milestone comes less than two weeks after their previous milestone of 2,000 registered users.

29

• The Western Frisian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Scots Wikipedia gains 252 articles overnight to reach 1,000 articles.

28

• The Thai Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

27

• The Latin Wikisource has reached 1,000 text-units.
• The Hebrew Wikisource has passed 500 text-units.

26

• The Waray Wikipedia has reached 500 articles. The 500^th article is Panglao, Bohol.

25

• The Neapolitan Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

24

• The Iloko Wikipedia has reached 100 articles. The 100^th article is Taoismo.

  

  Serbian Wikipedia reaches 15,000 articles

• The Japanese Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.
• The Japanese Wikinews has reached 500 published articles. Half of its stories treat Japan related news, and seven of those are original reports including some translations. Most covered areas are Japan, Asia and Europe. Most favored topics are "Society related" (Crimes, Accidents, Events or any other human interest), Politics, Weather and climates and Sports. 237 registered users participate in including seven sysops, and currently some 10 users are active.
• The Ido Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles. The 10,000^th article is Aplastado per elefanto.

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• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles. The 15,000^th article is Краков.
• The Ido Language Wiktionary has reached 25,000 articles with mostly Ido, Finnish, English and German words.

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• The Irish Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

20

• The German Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.

18

• The Corsican Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

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• The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has well over 2,000 registered users, thanks in large part to an article published today in the Vietnamese newspaper Tuổi Trẻ that features comments by several prominent contributors at the Vietnamese Wikipedia, which reached its 1,000^th registered user less than two months ago. [3] The milestone user is HarryNg.
• The Swedish Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

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• The Arabic Wiktionary has reached 100 registered users.
• The Neapolitan Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Occitan Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Cebuano Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The French Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.

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• The Latvian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Kurdish Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

14

• The English Wikipedia has reached 500,000 registered users.
• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles. The 100,000^th article is RST-code.
• The French Wikipedia has reached 175,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles. The 80,000^th article is Tronco celíaco.

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• The Alemannisch Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.

12

• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 35,000 articles.

11

• The Chuvash Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Russian Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.

8

• The Croatian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles. The 10,000^th article is Ivan Kozarac.

7

• The German Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles. The 300,000^th article is Gemeine Binsenjungfer.

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• About ten days after being created, the Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 100 articles. The 100th article was on Guiuan, Eastern Samar.
• The Spanish-language Wikinews edition has reached 700 articles.

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• The Friulian Wikipedia has reached 100 articles. The 100^th article is Chimiche.

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• The Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The French Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries.
• The Kazakh Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.

September 2005

30

• The English Wikipedia has reached 750,000 articles.
• The Pampanga Wikipedia has reached 100 articles. The 100^th article is Guagua, Pampanga.

29

• The Arabic Wikibooks has reached 100 registered users.
• The Dutch Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.

27

• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

26

• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 120,000 articles.

24

• The Spanish Wiktionary has reached 3,000 entries. The 3,000^th entry is leren.
• The Slovenian Wikipedia now has over 1,000 registered users.

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• 2,000 articles in the Bulgarian Wikiquote with Таралежите се раждат без бодли
• More than 2.5 million articles in Wikipedia!

21

• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 95,000 articles. The 95,000^th article is Saint-Loup.
• The Turkish Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.

20

• The Albanian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles. The 2,000^th article is Rrethi i Pukës.
• The Indonesian Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.

Special logo at the Serbian Wikipedia to celebrate its 14,000th article

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• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 14,000 articles. The 14,000^th article is Хипертекст.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has over 1,000 uploaded files. The 1,000^th file was Hình:9thPanchen.jpg, uploaded from the English Wikipedia by Làng Đậu.
• The Breton Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

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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.

17

• The Greek Wikipedia now has over 1,000 registered users.

16

• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles. The 100,000^th article is Lafarre (Haute-Loire).
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 16,000 articles. The 16,000^th article is Pompeje.

15

• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 13,000 articles with id:Triskaidekafobia (fear of number 13). Furthermore we now have 1,864 registered users.

14

• 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. [4] 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 German-language Wikinews edition has reached 2,000 articles.

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• The Spanish-language Wikinews edition has reached 600 articles with Premier de Ontario toma posición en contra de la aplicación de la Sharia.

Special logo at the Italian Wikipedia to celebrate its 100,000th article

9

• The Italian Wikipedia has made another big leap and has now reached 100,000 articles. The 100,000th was Choisy-le-Roi, a French town.

8

• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles amd becomes bigger than Dutch Wikipedia.

7

• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles. The 90,000^th article is Sainte-Marie (Ille-et-Vilaine).
• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 2,500 articles.
• Wikipedia has entered Alexa's global traffic top 50 [5].

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• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

3

• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

2

• The Ido Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles. The 5,000^th article is 5000.

August 2005

30

• The Kannada Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

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• The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has over 1,000 registered users. According to the statistics page, the 1,000^th user is Wenlee, but according to the userlist, the milestone user is Thanhbn. The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has 9,355 pages total, including 2,181 articles and 944 locally-uploaded images.

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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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• The Swedish Wikipedia passes 100,000 articles. The 100,000th article is believed to be sv:Jógvan við Keldu or sv:Epiglottal klusil. Read more at sv:Wikipedia:100K (in Swedish) and n:Swedish Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles (in English).
• Moved to Meta:Babel#Human Rights Servey on Wikipedia.

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• Subdomains were created for Wikisource, for 16 languages.
• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles with Preste João.
• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Sicilian Wikipedia reached 2,000 articles.

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• The English Wikipedia has reached 700,000 articles.
• The Limburgian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

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• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

21

• The Italian Wikiquote has reached 1,000 articles with Silvio Pellico.

20

• The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Greek Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

18

• The French Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.
• The Danish Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

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• The Telugu Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles with వినాయకుడు.
• The Sanskrit Wikipedia dropped from the 1,000-article mark to only 600 articles with the deletion of nearly half its articles, mainly the Rig Veda moved to Wikisource.

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• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

15

• The Japanese Wiktionary has reached 2500 articles with the Italian word colore.

14

• The Finnish Wikiquote has reached 100 articles.

13

• The First Annual Polish Wikimedia Meetup is held in Cracow on 13/14 August 2005. One of attendees is Tim Shell from the WMF Board. Creation of another local chapter – Wikimedia Polska is on the agenda.
• The Tamil Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

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• The Spanish-language Wikinews has reached 500 articles with Lula se considera traicionado y pide disculpas al pueblo brasileño.
• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
• The Ido Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.

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• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles with Yuki Matsuoka.
• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 85,000 articles with Zennewijnen.
• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 13,000 articles with Каиро!

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• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles

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• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles with Voọc Cát Bà, written by Vương Ngân Hà. The Vietnamese edition has recently reached an average five edits per article.

7

• The Cornish Wikipedia has reached 500 articles with Ynys Skaw.
• The Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

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• The Hebrew Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.

5

• The Italian Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.
• The Thai Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.

3

• The Kurdish Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.

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• The Cebuano Wikipedia has reached 100 articles with Mahaplag, Leyte (en:).

July 2005

31

• The Lingala Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The German Wikiquote reached 3,000 articles.
• The Japanese Wikinews has now 100 published articles 17 days after its launching.
• The Polish Wikinews has now hit 1000 articles on their article counter.

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• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles. The 60,000th article was Universidade de Denver.

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• The English Wikibooks has reached a total of 10,000 modules, spread out over a number of varied books. The 10,000th module is likely Dutch: Lesson 10.

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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.

26

• The Chinese Wikipedia has total over 100,000 pages, articles over 35,000, register user over 27,000.

25

• The Low Saxon Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.
• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries. The 5000th entry was Slime.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.

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• The Norwegian Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
• The Wikisource reaches 25,000 articles!

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• The English Wiktionary has reached 80,000 entries.
• The Swedish Wikipedia reaches 90,000 articles at 16.11 (UTC).

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• The Portuguese Wikiquote has reached 1,000 articles!

17

• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Bulgarian wikipedia has reached 17,000 articles!

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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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• The Afrikaans Wikipedia has reached 4000 articles
• The Spanish-language Wikinews has reached 400 articles. The 400th article was Ataque suicida mata 24 niños en Iraq.

11

• The Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles! The 30,000th article was no:Andrea Gioannetti by Ctande
• The combined article count of the Wikipedias is over 2,000,000 articles!
• Wikipedia becomes one of the day's top 50 most visited websites for the first time today with an Alexa ranking of 50.
• The Luxembourgish Wikipedia has reached 5000 articles
• The Spanish wiktionary has reached 2,000 articles.

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• The Scandinavian Wikipedias have reached 150,000 articles in total.

5

• The French Wikipedia is now bigger than the Japanese Wikipedia one with 127000 articles, and becomes the third largest Wikipedia.

4

• The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

Special logo at the Italian Wikipedia to celebrate its 50,000th article

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• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 50.000 articles with Nautilus. Take a look at our commemorative logo.

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• The Tagalog Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles with La Union.
• The Basque Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles with eu:Juan Jose Ibarretxe.

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• The French Wiktionary has reached 500 bambara entries.

June 2005

30

• The Min Nan Wikipedia (for the Min Nan language) has reached 1,000 articles with hu̍t-chú iông-ha̍p (nuclear fusion).
• WikiProject Chess is established to help standardize and improve chess coverage across all wikipedia languages.

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• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles with Burung Belatok Kecil.
• Wikiquote reached at 4,836th rank on Alexa ranking. It is the highest record for this project. It has around 15,000 articles in total and around 30 languages are active.

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• The Slovak Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles, with the 10,000^th being Železo.
• The German Wikipedia has reached 250,000 articles, with the 250,000^th (probably) being Mönchgut.
• Khalid of Saudi Arabia reports that the block on English Wikipedia in that country has been lifted. The block was first announced this past Saturday, June 25, though no reason was given for it. Information was passed on to Internet access monitors in the US, and Khalid wrote a letter to the authorities in Saudi Arabia, requesting that the block be lifted in consideration of Wikipedia's NPOV policy toward politics and religion.
• The Polish wiktionary has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Yiddish Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.

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• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles. A press release in Finnish is to be prepared for release the next day: Wikipedia:Lehdistötiedote 25 000 artikkelia/Mediatiedote.
• Several projects have now been upgraded to use the new MediaWiki 1.5 software. The conversion of the English-language Wikipedia is now in progress. Because of its size, this is expected to be the single largest conversion task, and to take hours or days to run. Other languages and projects continue to be available as normal.

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• The MediaWiki 1.5 upgrade has now started: Wikipedia projects will be converted one-by-one, with each sub-project being locked read-only whilst it is converted. During this process, other projects will be available as normal.
• The Estonian wiktionary has reached 5,000 articles.

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• The Anglo-Saxon wiktionary has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Ido wiktionary has reached 15,000 articles.

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• The Scots Wikipedia has been created

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• Last Friday the Italian chapter of Wikimedia Foundation, Associazione Wikimedia Italia, was legally formed in Canino, Italy. 35 users are already members of the new foundation.

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• The English Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles. The 600,000^th article was (probably) Poona Bayabao, Lanao del Sur, at 00:20, 19 Jun 2005.
• The Nahuatl Wikipedia has reached 100 articles!
• The Interlingua Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles. The 2,000^th article was 8 de martio.
• The Georgian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles. The 2,000^th article was გიორგი II გურიელი.
• The Corsican Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

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• The Bulgarian Wikiquote has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Russian Wikiquote has reached 100 articles.
• The Irish Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles. The 1000^th article was Cú Chulainn (en:).
• The Bambara Wikipedia has reached 50 articles.
• The Nauruan Wikipedia is the 100th wikipedia to reach 100 articles!

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• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 75,000 articles.

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• The Italian wikiquote has reached 500 articles.

10

• The Walloon Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

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• Swedish magazine Internetworld ranks the Swedish Wikipedia as the second best utility site of 2005. [6] (...and better than the commercial Swedish alternative Nationalencyklopedin. See also: Wikipedia:Wikipedia är bättre än Nationalencyklopedin) :)

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• The Spanish-language Wikinews edition has reached 300 articles. The 300^th article is 22 muertos en enfrentamientos en Etiopía.
• The Swedish Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Wikipedia in Haitian Creole has reached 100 articles.

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• The Latin Wiktionary has reached 2,000 articles.

6

• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.
• The Hebrew Wikisource has reached 200 texts.
• The German Wiktionary has reached 5,000 articles.

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• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

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• The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

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• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

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• The Polish Wikinews has reached 750 articles.

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• The Ido Wiktionary has reached 10,000 articles.

May 2005

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• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles. This Wikipedia is the first Austronesian language wikipedia which has reached the 10,000 barrier. This is noteworthy as the word "wiki" in Wikipedia, Wikimedia etc, is an Austronesian word.
• Sicilian Wikipedia reaches 1,000 articles in less than 8 months.

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• Board Election 2005 was announced. Please translate election notice into your favorite language!
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles. The 50,000th article is Kurt Waldheim.

Special logo at the Hebrew Wikipedia to celebrate its 20,000^th article

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• The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles (up from 10,000 on September 9, 2004).

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• The Swedish Wikipedia has now more than 5,000 registered users.

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• The Dutch Wikinews has reached 100 articles.

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• The Danish Wiktionary has reached 1,000 articles.

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• Википеди, the Chuvash Wikipedia, reaches 100 articles.
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

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• Wikimedia Commons reaches 100,000 uploads, and receives Ars Electronica honorary mention. More details are in the press release.
• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 500 articles and over 100 users.
• Wikipedia Tiếng Việt, the Vietnamese Wikipedia, now has over 500 users and, amusingly, exactly 1337 articles. :)
• On Commons there are over 5.000 pronunciations in the Dutch language. The exact number is not known, but the latest batch were 1833 medical words donated by Ziekenhuis.nl GerardM 21:16, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
• The English Wikinews reached 2,000 news stories. The 2,000th story was Dissident meeting held in Cuba.
• Ido Wiktionary reaches 1,000 articles.

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• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles. The 50,000^th one was Sé de Viseu.

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• The Thai Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• Википеди, the Ossetian Wikipedia, has reached 1,000 articles. Unfortunately, Bug 1688, which prevents MediaWiki from recognizing interwiki links to the Ossetian Wikipedia, is still evident at Meta, although it has been fixed at Wikipedia.

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• The Gujarati Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.

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• The Albanian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• Wikisource has reached 20,000 texts.

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• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles. The 70,000 ^th article is Paraíso.
• The Wikcionário (Portuguese Wiktionary) has reached 3,000 articles. The 3,000 ^th article is Belizense.

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• The Corsican Wiktionary has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Alemannic Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• Estonian Wikipedia reaches 10,000 articles.

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• The Estonian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Kashubian Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

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• Chinese Wikipedia release No.1 WikiReader. download：PDF; OpenOffice.org.
• The Swedish Wikipedia has reached 75,000 articles.

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• New vote on language subdomains at Wikisource has ended, and language subdomains have been approved by a large majority. Discussion has begun on how to move content to language domains.

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• The Georgian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

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• The Javanese Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles. The 1,000^th article is Kakawin Ramayana, about the Old Javanese rendering of Ramayana. Ramayana is one of the two great epics from India. Furthermore we now have 65 registered users.

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• The Chinese wikiquote has reached 200 articles.
• The Danish Wiktionary has reached 500 articles.
• The Bosnian Wiktionary has reached 100 articles.

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• The Marathi wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

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• The French Wikinews edition has reached 100 articles.
• The Alemannic Wikiquote was created as separate namespace on Alemannic Wikipedia.

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• The Portuguese wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles. The 40,000^th article is Sorbo Serpico.
• The German Wikiquotes reached 2,500 articles.
• Wikinoticias, the Spanish Wikinews reaches 200 articles.
• Portuguese Wikipedia reaches 40,000 articles.

April 2005

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• The Galipedia (galician wikipedia) has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Javanese Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

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• The Cymraeg Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.

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• French wikiquote has reached 2,000 articles.
• The French Wiktionary has reached 5,000 articles.
• Number of articles in wikipedia's database totals more than 1,7 millions.
• The Polish Wikinews edition has reached 500 articles.

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• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Bulgarian Wiktionary has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Romanian Wikinews edition has reached 100 articles.

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• The Finnish Wiktionary has reached 2,000 articles.

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• The Chechen Wikipedia started and now has 5 articles.

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• The French Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles. The 100,000th article is fr:Pierre Séguier by Yann.
• Wikipedia Tiếng Việt, the Vietnamese Wikipedia, now has more than 1,000 articles. The 1,000^th article was Trung tử (centriole), by Cao Xuân Hiếu. In celebration, the Vietnamese Wikipedia community unveiled its new front page design today. The project to create this new design, which itself went through three redesigns before reaching the current version, is nearly as old as the wiki itself, dating back to December 2003. Suggestions for improving the design are still welcome as always.
• Wikipedia's Alexa rank continues to climb. Today it reached a weekly average rank of 76, with a daily rank of 56.
• The Italian Wikinews edition has reached 100 articles.
• English wikiquote has reached 3,000 articles.
• The Kurdish Wiktionary has reached 2,000 articles.

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• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

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• The Bulgarian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.

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• 501(c)(3) status granted to Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikimedia:Deductibility of donations for details.
• The Georgian Wikipedia has reached 500 articles, less than a month after gaining its 100 articles. The most recent Wikipedia to reach 500 articles prior to the Georgian was the Armenian Wikipedia, earlier this month; these two together constitute the first languages from the Caucasus region and the first from the non-European languages of the former Soviet Union.

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• The Tok Pisin Wikipedia reaches 100 articles.

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• The Persian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

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• The Dutch-language Wikipedia has reached 65,000 articles at 00:24 CET. The 65,000th article is nl:Oberdorf am Hochegg by Rex.

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• The Swedish Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.

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• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

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• The Ossetian Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

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• The Wikimedia Foundation and Yahoo! announced today that they have reached an agreement by which Yahoo will provide hosting capacity to Wikimedia. Yahoo will dedicate a significant number of servers in one of its Asian facilities to hosting Wikimedia's free content websites. See the press release and announcement. Official announcement between : Yahoo France and Wikimedia Foundation.
• Wiktionary Tiếng Việt, the Vietnamese Wiktionary, has finally reached 100 entries with tình bạn (friendship), written by David, who has probably written more articles than anyone else at the Vietnamese Wiktionary thus far.
• The Maltese Wikipedia has reached 50 articles.

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• Google Definitions add multilingual support[7], can use similar define:wikipedia, finds de, en, zh, fr, it, ru, es, etc. wikipedia content.
• The Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia reaches 5000 articles.

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• Now, http://ca.wikipedia.org can use the direction http://www.viquipedia.org
• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 2000 words.
• The Armenian Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Min Nan(Bân-lâm-gú) Wikipedia has reached 800 articles.

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• The Chinese wikibooks has reached 50 textbook modules.
• Norwegian wiktionary has 100 articles.
• The Norwegian Wikipedia at no: decides by a democratic vote to go from being a common Wikipedia for both official written forms of Norwegian, to using exclusively the bokmål/riksmål form. Norwegian articles written in nynorsk henceforth belong only at nn:, and (at least for a while) the Wikipedia prefixes nb: and no: will be synonyms.

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• Number of articles in wikipedia's database totals more than 1,6 millions.

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• The Limburgish Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

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• Italian Wikinews is created.

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• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 500 words.

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• The Nauruan Wikipedia has reached 50 articles.
• The Kashubian Wikipedia has reached 300 articles.

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• The Bosnian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

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• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles.

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• The Slovak (Slovenčina) Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 100 articles and is bound to grow more in the following period!

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• The Arabic Wikipedia reaches 2,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikinews edition has reached 100 articles.

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• The Wikiquote project has over 10,000 articles in total.

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• The Serbian Wikipedia reaches 10 000 articles with Кристална ноћ/Kristalna noć (Kristallnacht)!
• Spanish wikiquote has reached 500 articles.
• The Board ask open questions on meta, for discussion by everyone, both before the next Board meeting, and longer term. Feel free to add any answers, comments, thoughts, or suggestions.
• The Deutsch Wikinews edition has reached 1,000 pages in the main namespace, most of them articles.

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• Wikipedia Tiếng Việt, the Vietnamese Wikipedia, now has over 500 articles. Article number 500 was probably Vật lý thực nghiệm (Experimental physics), written by Trần Thế Trung, the same user who wrote article 400 a week and a half ago. In less than a month the Vietnamese Wikipedians have created almost 200 new articles, a stark departure from the linear growth pattern that the project has exhibited for more than a year.

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• Dutch wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• Polish wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• Polish wikiquote has reached 1,000 articles.

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• Norwegian wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• Commons has reached 2500 Dutch pronunciations. Most of them for use in wiktionary and some like media:nl-Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.ogg for use in Wikipedia and Wikinews.

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• Northern Sami wikipedia has reached 100 articles.

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• Finnish wiktionary has 1,000 articles.

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• Estonian wiktionary has 2,000 articles.

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• English wikipedia has reached 500,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikinews edition has reached 100 articles.

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• German wikipedia has reached 210,000 articles.
• Ukrainian wikipedia has reached 300 registered users.
• English wiktionary has 60,000 articles.

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• French wikipedia reached 90.000 articles.
• English wikipedia now has 2,000 email subscribers to the featured article of the day.
• Swedish wikiquote reached 50 articles.

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• The project namespace (ns:4) and site name of the portuguese Wikinews is changed from Wikinews to Wikinotícias.

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• The English Wikinews edition has reached 1,000 pages in the main namespace, most of them articles. At the same time, the 10th article including original reporting has been published (see Erik's summary of the progress on original reporting so far).

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• Sicilian wikipedia reached 500 articles.
• Ossetian wikipedia reached 100 articles.

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• Wikipedia is now #4 in Alexa's list of the top 50 reference sites.
• The Thai wikipedia has reached 1000 articles today. The jubilee article is แฮร์รี่ พอตเตอร์ (en:Harry Potter).

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• The Hungarian Wiktionary has more than 5000 entries.

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• Breton wikipedia reached 100 articles.
• Polish wikinews reached 100 articles.
• The Min Nan(Bân-lâm-gú) Wikipedia has reached 700 articles.

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• Armenian wikipedia reached 100 articles.

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• Wikipedians of Taiwan meetup in en:Taipei. See report.

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• Portuguese wikiquote reached 100 articles.
• Number of articles in wikipedia's database totals more than 1,5 millions.

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• Georgian wikipedia reached 100 articles.

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• You did it! Thanks to your generosity we exceeded our fund drive goal by 26%. (details)
• The Latvian Wikipedia reaches 1000 articles.

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• The Wikimedia servers are back in service, although work continues to attempt to undo the remaining damage caused by the crash.
• The Nederlandstalige wiktionary reaches 10.000 articles. The word was oso hormiguero by wikt:nl:Gebruiker:MARCEL.

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• A major power failure at the colocation centre where Wikimedia's main servers are hosted crashes all the Wikimedia servers. Several database servers were corrupted. Fortunately, one server had intact data, and, after replaying transaction logs, all or almost all data was salvaged from the crash. After many hours of total downtime, Wikimedia was later brought up in read-only mode. Full operation is expected to commence within 24 hours.

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• The Icelandic Wikipedia reaches 2000 articles. The 2000th article was is:Skordýrafræði (en:entomology)
• The Belarusan Wikipedia reaches 1000 articles

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• The Serbian Wikipedia reaches 9000 articles.
• Polish, Portuguese, and Romanian editions of Wikinews are set up: http://www.wikinews.org/

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• Fundraising drive began (till March 4). Translations are still needed into languages as many as possible.

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• Fundraising translation requests: Wikimedia needs your help – Fund drive notice
  

Needed by Friday 18 February 2005 so soon thereafter.

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• The German Wikipedia reached 200,000 articles.
• The Italian Wiktionary reached 10,000 articles.

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• The Ukrainian Wikipedia reached 15,000 articles.

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• The Hebrew Wikipedia reached 15,000 articles.

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• The Serbian Wikipedia reaches 8000 articles whit Сократ/Sokrat (Socrates)!
• The Japanese Wikipedia reached 100,000 articles. The 100kth article is 鉄鉱石 (Iron ore) posted by. Transpassive at 8:50 (UTC).

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• The Russian Wiktionary reached 1,000 articles.
• The Hindi Wiktionary reached 1,000 articles with संगीत (music).

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• The Hebrew Wikipedia received today an Honor Certificate from the Israeli Internet Society and the National Society for Volunteering in Israel, in honor of its voluntary activity in the Internet for the benefit of man and society. You can see it here, it's in Hebrew. Everybody who contribute to the advancement of Wikipedia in general should see himself as being honored. David Shay 18:42, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• The Finnish Wikipedia reached 15,000 articles.

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• The Aragonese Wikipedia reached 100 articles.
• The Chinese Wikipedia reached 20,000 articles.
• The French Wikipedia reached 80,000 articles.
• The German Wikiquotes reached 2,000 articles.
• The Estonian Wiktionary reached 1,000 articles.
• The Swedish Wikipedia reached 60,000 articles.

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• The Wikisource reaches 10,000 pages. The 10,000th was Japanese language 北海道舊土人保護法, about a Japanese law.

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• The German Wikibooks reached 200 books in 1300 chapters due to a search in the database-dump. A newer dump would probably reveal a lot of further books.

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• French, Spanish and Swedish Wikinews were created.
• The Hindi Wiktionary reaches 500 articles.
• The Swedish Wiktionary reaches 2000 articles.

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• The Dutch Wikinews was created.
• The Portuguese Wiktionary reaches 1,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikipedia reaches 30,000 articles.
• The Italian wiktionary reaches their 1,000th article in the Napolitan language, you can read more here.
• The Limburgish Wikipedia reaches 100 articles.

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• The Dutch Wikipedia reaches 50.000 articles. The 50.000th was Pianosa, about an Italian island, written by Ben-NL

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• Russian wikiquote has reached 50 articles.

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• The Serbian Wikipedia reaches 7000 articles.
• The Hindi Wikipedia reaches 1000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikipedia reaches 40000 articles.

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• Simple English Wikipedia has reached 2,500 articles. The 2,500th article might be simple:Korean War posted by an anon user.

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• The Esperanto Wikipedia reaches 20,000 articles. Article number 20,001 is a specially prepared collaboration on the Vercors plateau in France.

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• The Czech Wikipedia reaches 5,000 articles.

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• The English Wikipedia reaches 450,000 articles on its 4th birthday.

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• The English Wikibooks reaches 6000 modules. The 6000th article is Cookbook:Curry powder

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• The nl:wiktionary has its 250th language (Alabama) and Commons has its 1000th pronunciation of Dutch.

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• The French Wiktionary has reached 2,000 articles.

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• The German Wikipedia has reached 300 excellent articles. Number 300 was the article about Hakenrüssler (Kinorhyncha) -- Necrophorus 07:22, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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• The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 5000 articles.

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