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See also : Wikimedia hardware status, Goings-on

June 2005

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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.
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Special logo at the Hebrew Wikipedia to celebrate its 20,000th 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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  • 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 Javanese Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles. The 1,000th 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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April 2005

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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 1,000th 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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  • 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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  • Number of articles in wikipedia's database totals more than 1,6 millions.
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March 2005

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  • The Wikiquote project has over 10,000 articles in total.
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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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  • Northern Sami wikipedia 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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  • Portuguese wikiquote reached 100 articles.
  • Number of articles in wikipedia's database totals more than 1,5 millions.
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February 2005

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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.

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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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  • 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 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 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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Projects by number of articles/pages

Wikipedias

Wikipedias by number of articles
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
600,000
500,000 English (17 March 2005)
400,000
300,000
250,000
200,000 German (15 February 2005)
150,000
100,000 Japanese (11 February 2005); French (20 April 2005)
90,000
80,000
70,000 Swedish (12 April 2005); Dutch (16 May 2005)
60,000 Polish (22 March 2005)
50,000 Portuguese (21 May 2005); Spanish (30 May 2005)
40,000 Italian (19 April 2005)
30,000 Chinese (3 June 2005)
20,000 Danish (5 August 2004); Esperanto (22 January 2005); Norwegian (21 March 2005); Finnish (27 April 2005); Hebrew (29 May 2005); Russian (5 June 2005)
15,000 Ukrainian (14 February 2005); Bulgarian (18 April 2005)
10,000 Catalan (16 November 2004); Romanian (11 December 2004); Russian (30 December 2004); Slovenian (7 February 2005); Serbian (24 March 2005); Estonian (14 May 2005); Czech (24 May 2005); Indonesian (31 May 2005); Korean (4 June 2005); Hungarian (4 June 2005)
5,000 Croatian (13 January 2005); Slovak (27 March 2005); Nynorsk (6 April 2005); Galician (30 April 2005)
2,000 Afrikaans (21 February 2004); Basque (March 2004); Latin (21 March 2004); Malay (4 May 2004); Walloon (May 2004); Welsh (15 August 2004); Simple English (16 September 2004); Greek (29 October 2004); Tatar (November 2004); Asturian (27 November 2004); Luxembourgish (27 November 2004); Turkish (14 December 2004); Ido (13 January 2005); Lithuanian (21 January 2005); Icelandic (21 February 2005); Arabic (27 March 2005); Bosnian (29 March 2005); Farsi (14 April 2005); Thai (20 May 2005)
1,000 Interlingua (31 July 2003); Western Frisian (6 June 2004); Kurdish (13 September 2004); Sanskrit (10 October 2004); Scots Gaelic (7 January 2005); Hindi (25 January 2005); Low Saxon (30 January 2005); Belarusian (21 February 2005); Latvian (28 February 2005); Vietnamese (20 April 2005); Javanese (7 May 2005); Georgian (8 May 2005); Albanian (18 May 2005); Ossetian (23 May 2005); Sicilian (1 June 2005); Marathi (June 2 2005);
500 Sundanese (4 September 2004); Southern Min (1 November 2004); Occitan (24 November 2004); Irish (19 January 2005); Tamil (24 February 2005); Tagalog (18 March 2005); Limburgish (1 April 2005); Armenian (5 April 2005); Kashubian (14 May 2005); Alemannic (15 May 2005); Aragonese (20 May 2005); Macedonian (23 May 2005); Northern Sami (30 May 2005); Kannada (June 3, 2005)
100 Anglo-Saxon (October 2004); Urdu (8 June 2004); Maori (5 October 2004); Faeroese (24 October 2004); Serbo-Croatian (8 September 2004); Cornish (15 September 2004); Kashmiri (4 October 2004); Interlingue (18 November 2004); Malayalam (7 December 2004); Telugu (6 February 2005); Bengali (23 February 2005); Breton (8 March 2005); Tok Pisin (15 April 2005); Gujarati (19 May 2005); Corsican (23 May 2005); Chuvash (26 May 2005); Maltese (4 June, 2005)

Wiktionaries

Wiktionaries by number of articles
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
70,000 English (19 May 2005)
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50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000 Polish; Bulgarian (28 April 2005)
15,000 Dutch (1 April 2005); Italian (17 April 2005)
10,000 Galician (22 December 2004); Ido (1 June 2005)
5,000 Sicilian (4 February 2005); Hungarian (9 March 2005); French (27 April 2005)
2,000 German (2 January 2005); Swedish (29 January 2005); Japanese (3 February 2005); Estonian (18 March 2005); Portuguese (5 April 2005); Kurdish (20 April 2005); Finnish (25 April 2005)
1,000 Spanish (4 December 2004); Latin (23 December 2004); Russian (10 February 2005); Hindi (20 February 2005); Corsican (15 May 2005); Danish (26 May 2005)
500 Turkish (19 November 2004); Korean (31 January 2005); Croatian (21 February 2005); Chinese (31 March 2005)
100 Romanian; Hebrew; Interlingua (24 February 2005); Esperanto (6 July 2004); Gujarati (28 November 2004); Catalan (5 December 2004); Arabic (1 February 2005); Norwegian (4 April 2005); Serbian (5 April 2005); Vietnamese (7 April 2005); Czech (11 April 2005); Thai (15 April 2005); Bosnian (5 May 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)
1,000 Polish (22 March 2005)
500 Bulgarian (22 January 2005); Spanish (24 March 2005)
100 Italian; Chinese (26 December 2004); Japanese (17 January 2005); Dutch (5 February 2005); Portuguese (3 March 2005); Hebrew (10 May 2005)

Wikinews

Wikinews by number of pages
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
2,000 English (23 May 2005)
1,000 German (24 March 2005)
500 Polish (28 April 2005)
100 Swedish (7 February 2005); Spanish (17 March 2005); Portuguese (26 March 2005); Italian (20 April 2005); Romanian (27 April 2005); French (3 May 2005); Dutch (27 May 2005)

Archive

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