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In particular, this page lists article-count milestones . Recommended ones are 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k, 5k increments to 20k, 10k increments to 100k, 50k increments to 200k, 100k increments to 1M, 500k increments to 2M, 1M increments to 10M. Try mixing things up with other milestones, such as active users or new articles per day.
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August 2009
17
13
Portuguese Wikipedia 500,000 articles
12
5
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July 2009
31
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16
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10
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7
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June 2009
28
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Russian Wikipedia 400,000 articles
16
10
9
8
Korean Wikipedia 100,000
5
4
The localized logo for ml Wikipedia
1
May 2009
30
Logo of Ukrainian Wikipedia with 150,000 articles
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Logo of Ukrainian Wiktionary with 20,000 articles
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18
14
13
The localized logo for Ido Wiktionary
12
8
6
4
April 2009
30
28
Meta has reached 250,000 registered users.
26
21
20
Chinese Wikipedia 250,000
19
17
16
Czech Wikisource – Wikizdroje
15
13
12
9
7
Czech Wikiversity
5
March 2009
Czech Wikibooks
31
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28
21
16
The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has reached 500,000 wiki pages (including articles, talk pages, category pages, redirects, image descriptions, templates, etc.)
14
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8
6
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4
February 2009
25
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January 2009
31
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The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages had its millionth edit (not counting deleted ones) in the first hours of the new year. It added Prositt Neujohr! about a little poem, a traditional new year morning greeting, to be recited before breakfast, while presenting a pretzel shaped sweet bread to the family.
Projects by number of articles/pages
Wikipedias by milestone of articles
Milestone
Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
3,000,000
English (17 August 2009)
2,000,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
900,000
German (4 May 2009)
800,000
French (6 May 2009)
700,000
600,000
Polish (30 April 2009); Japanese (8 July 2009)
500,000
Italian (3 October 2008); Dutch (30 November 2008); Spanish (5 August 2009); Portuguese (12 August 2009)
400,000
Russian (16 June 2009)
300,000
Swedish (13 December 2008)
200,000
Chinese (31 July 2008); Norwegian bokmål (13 December 2008); Finnish (12 April 2009)
150,000
Catalan (28 December 2008); Ukrainian (30 May 2009)
100,000
Volapük (7 September 2007); Romanian (11 January 2008); Turkish (3 February 2008); Esperanto (15 June 2008); Czech (19 June 2008); Hungarian (17 July 2008); Slovak (28 August 2008); Danish (29 December 2008); Indonesian (22 February 2009); Arabic (25 May 2009); Korean (4 June 2009)
90,000
Hebrew (31 March 2009); Vietnamese (7 July 2009), Lithuanian (3 August 2009)
80,000
Serbian (18 July 2009)
70,000
Slovenian (27 January 2009); Bulgarian (29 March 2009)
60,000
Estonian (22 February 2009); Persian (5 May 2009); Croatian (11 May 2009)
50,000
Haitian (20 August 2008); Simple English (6 January 2009); Nepal Bhasa (15 April 2009); Norwegian Nynorsk (9 July 2009); Galician (23 July 2009)
40,000
Telugu (8 May 2008); Thai (27 October 2008); Greek (14 February 2009); Malay (9 June 2009); Basque (15 July 2009)
30,000
Cebuano (? March 2007); Hindi (9 May 2009); Georgian (24 May 2009); Macedonian (? June 2009); Latin (31 July 2009)
20,000
Bishnupriya Manipuri (19 August 2007); Bosnian (30 August 2007); Luxembourgish (2 February 2008); Icelandic (15 February 2008); Albanian (19 April 2008); Breton (24 June 2008); Marathi (22 September 2008); Azeri (23 October 2008); Tagalog (1 November 2008); Serbo-Croatian (4 November 2008); Welsh (20 November 2008); Piedmontese (17 January 2009); Latvian (13 February 2009); Belarusian (22 June 2009); Bengali (28 June 2009); Javanese (14 July 2009)
15,000
Ido (12 April 2007); Tamil (23 August 2008); Occitan (17 October 2008); Old Belarusian (2 January 2009); Aragonese (? June 2009)
10,000
Neapolitan (20 June 2006); Sundanese (13 April 2007); Low Saxon (4 July 2007); Sicilian (6 July 2007); Kurdish (19 September 2007); Asturian (20 November 2007); Walloon (20 March 2008); Afrikaans (16 June 2008); Western Frisian (21 December 2008); Cantonese (26 January 2009); Swahili (22 February 2009); Quechua (14 March 2009); Urdu (21 March 2009); Chuvash (6 April 2009); Samogitian (8 April 2009); Malayalam (1 June 2009); Waray-Waray / Samar-Leyte Visayan (14 July 2009)
5,000
Uzbek (20 August 2006); Ripuarian (24 October 2006); Corsican (22 December 2006); Tajik (30 January 2007); Irish (7 May 2007); Venetian (3 July 2007); Tarantino (2 August 2007); Maori (10 September 2007); Malayalam (12 December 2007); Kannada (27 December 2007); Yoruba (3 January 2008); Scottish Gaelic (12 March 2008); Kapampangan (1 April 2008); Yiddish (8 May 2008); Upper Sorbian (23 August 2008); Nahuatl (7 September 2008); Lombard (2 February 2009); Gujarati (25 April 2009); Aromanian (27 April 2009); Min Nan (30 April 2009); Gilaki (30 April 2009); Alemannic (8 May 2009); Kazakh (27 June 2009)
2,000
Tatar (5 November 2004); Interlingua (20 June 2005); Limburgish (17 May 2006); Armenian (13 August 2006); Ilokano (15 September 2006); Faroese (7 October 2006);Norman (14 November 2006); Amharic (22 December 2006); Dutch Low Saxon (11 January 2007); Sanskrit (13 February 2007); Friulian (22 April 2007); Bihari (29 April 2007); Novial (19 May 2007); Banyumasan (7 May 2007); Northern Sami (15 May 2007); Pali (8 June 2007); Pangasinan (8 July 2007); Scots (29 August 2007); West Flemish (27 August 2007); Ligurian (2 November 2007); Nepali (14 November 2007); Divehi (28 December 2007); Romansh (29 January 2008); Zazaki (6 February 2008); Wu (17 February 2008); Ossetian / Ossetic (25 February 2008); Classical Chinese (26 April 2008); Arpitan / Franco-Provençal (2 May 2008); Maltese (4 May 2008);Bavarian (20 September 2008); Manx (17 November 2008); Khmer (27 November 2008); Võro (30 December 2008); Mongolian (4 February 2009); Sakha (5 February 2009); Gan (7 February 2009); Egyptian Arabic (14 March 2009); Turkmen (19 April 2009); Kashubian (4 June 2009); Uyghur (17 June 2009); Turkmen (22 June 2009); Central Bicolano (28 June 2009); Ladino / Judeo-Spanish (3 July 2009)
1,000
Cornish (22 May 2006); Pennsylvania German (16 October 2006); Tongan (25 April 2007); Pashto (5 August 2007); Lingala (1 December 2007); Anglo-Saxon / Old English (29 December 2007); Hawaiian (9 February 2008); Turkmen (27 February 2008); Interlingue (31 May 2008); Guarani (7 September 2008); Mazandarani (24 October 2008); Silesian (15 November 2008); Sardinian (14 December 2008); Komi (15 December 2008); Sinhalese (14 January 2009); Burmese (9 April 2009); Malagasy (16 April 2009); Turkmen (12 May 2009); Fiji Hindi (26 May 2009); Saterland Frisian (7 June 2009)
500
Lojban (? January 2007); Oriya (? August 2007); Wolof (4 November 2007); Tok Pisin (6 November 2007); Emilian-Romagnol (28 November 2007); Tahitian (24 December 2007); Crimean Tatar (13 January 2008); Zealandic (30 January 2008); Igbo (5 February 2008); Aymara (23 February 2008); Kongo (1 March 2008); Zamboanga Chavacano (17 March 2008); Kyrgyz (17 April 2008); Erzya (9 June 2008); Sranan (23 August 2008); Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (12 September 2008); Papiamentu (4 October 2008); Hakka (17 December 2008); Extremaduran (29 January 2009); Punjabi (26 March 2009); Kabyle (? March 2009); Somali (16 April 2009); Lao (1 August 2009)
200
Kashmiri (4 October 2004); Nauruan (17 June 2005); Moldovan (7 August 2005); Udmurt (22 November 2005); Tetum (15 May 2006); Romani (6 June 2006); Tibetan (10 August 2006); Inuktitut (4 February 2007); Old Church Slavonic (? April 2007); Sindhi (? September 2007); Bashkir (7 November 2007); Gothic (22 November 2007); Cherokee (20 December 2007); Chechen (19 February 2008); Lower Sorbian (29 April 2008); Karakalpak (10 June 2008); Min Dong (16 June 2008); Bambara (27 June 2008); Samoan (23 August 2008); Moksha (23 August 2008); Oromo (4 September 2008); Ewe (19 September 2008); Navajo (29 October 2008); Pontic (24 May 2009); Greenlandic (? July 2009); Norfolk (1 August 2009)
100
Avar (10 June 2006); Cree (11 November 2006); Tigrinya (26 April 2007); Assamese (? May 2007); Zulu (30 August 2007); Venda (7 December 2007); Xhosa (23 February 2008); Swati (6 March 2008); Bislama (29 April 2008); Chamorro (16 May 2008); Dzongkha (4 July 2008); Tsonga (23 August 2008); Tswana (23 August 2008); Abkhazian (4 September 2008); Hausa (? February 2009)
Statistics of many languages are outdated.
Wiktionaries by number of articles
Milestone
Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
1,500,000
1,000,000
English (18 October 2008 ), French (19 October 2008)
900,000
800,000
700,000
600,000
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
Vietnamese (14 October 2006); Turkish , Lithuanian (10 June 2009); Russian (? 2009)
150,000
Greek (September 2007);
100,000
Chinese (12 January 2007); Tamil (March 2008); Finnish (November 2008); Hungarian (???); Polish (???); Italian (May 2009)
90,000
German (7 May 2009 )
80,000
70,000
60,000
Korean (5 March 2009)
50,000
Swedish (31 December 2007); Arabic (31 December 2007); Portuguese (27 September 2008)
40,000
Kurdish (February ? 2008); Korean (March 2008); Dutch (November 14, 2008);
30,000
Indonesian (27 May 2007); Telugu (September 2007); Spanish (November 27, 2007); Japanese (22 April 2008)
20,000
Bulgarian (28 April 2005); Volapük (July 2007); Galician (29 June 2008); Romanian (21 September 2008); Norwegian (7 April 2009); Ukrainian (May 23, 2009); Catalan (10 June 2009)
15,000
Estonian (January 2008); Limburgish (8 February 2008); Romanian (14 July 2008)
10,000
Serbian (July 2006); Persian (December 2006); Icelandic (16. Apríl 2007); Romanian (31 October 2007); Afrikaans (January 2008); Sicilian (April 2008)
5,000
Slovenian (7 February 2006); Armenian (13 November 2006); Min Nan (29 April 2007); Latin (9 September 2004); Czech (16 October 2008)
2,000
Hebrew (18 February 2006); Kannada (17 July 2009); Breton (4 April 2007); Urdu (? ? 2007); Danish (?? 2007); Swahili (? ? 2007); Albanian ; (? ? 2007); Simple English (? ? 2007); Ukrainian (? ? 2007); Anglo-Saxon (? ? 2007); West Frisian (? September 2007); Croatian (? September 2007); Asturian (26 Oct 2007); Malayalam (27 April 2008); Kannada (10 April 2009); Türkmençe (22 June 2009)
1,000
Occitan (24 December 2007); Hindi (20 February 2005); Corsican (15 May 2005); Slovak (22 April 2006); Kazakh (? ? 2007); Southern Sotho (? ? 2007); Malay (5 April 2008); Irish Gaelic (June 2008); Türkmençe (12 May 2009)
500
Low Saxon (11 March 2006); Kashubian (11 July 2006); Limburgish (10 October 2007); Thai (?? 2007)
100
Esperanto (6 July 2004); Gujarati (28 November 2004); Interlingua (24 February 2005); Bosnian (5 May 2005); Interlingue (12 June 2005); Yiddish (8 November 2005); Welsh (18 February 2006); Thai (13 March 2006); Sindhi (18 March 2006); Macedonian (26 April 2006); Marathi (27 June 2006); Quechua (June 2006); Kirghiz (July 2006); Amharic (26 July 2006); Aragonese (5 November 2006)
Wikisource by number of pages
Milestone
Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
Updated
100,000
English (??)
26 June 2008
80,000
Portuguese (??)
22 May 2009
50,000
French (??)
22 May 2009
40,000
Spanish (8 November 2008); Chinese (??)
22 May 2009
30,000
German (??)
22 May 2009
20,000
Italian (30 December 2008) Russian (21 November 2008) ; Hebrew (??)
22 May 2009
15,000
Arabic (??); Persian (??)
22 May 2009
10,000
Thai (??); Polish (??); Hungarian (??)
22 May 2009
5,000
Romanian (17 February 2007); Telugu (??); Croatian (? December 2006); Czech (12 July 2008); Finnish (??)
22 May 2009
4,000
Turkish (??)
22 May 2009
3,000
Dutch (??) ; Swedish (??)
22 May 2009
2,000
Serbian (? ? 2007); Latin (??); Ukrainian (8 March 2009); Slovenian (??); Japanese (??); Limburgian (??); Greek (22 April 2009)
22 May 2009
1,000
Malayalam (??); Icelandic (??); Bosnian (? December 2006); Catalan (??); Korean (??)l Bengali (September 25, 2008); Indonesian (??)
22 May 2009
500
Armenian (??); Norwegian (??); Danish (??) ; Macedonian (??) ; Yiddish (??) ; Azeri (??)
22 May 2009
100
Tamil (??); Vietnamese (? ? 2007); Kannada (? December 2006); Estonian (??); Bulgarian (??); Slovak (??); Welsh (??); Galician (4 November 2007); Lithuanian (??)
22 May 2009
1 to 100
Min-nan (??); Haitian (??); Faroese (??); Anglo-Saxon (??)
26 June 2008
Wikispecies (multilingual ) by number of content pages
Milestone
Project (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
150,000
Wikispecies (8 September 2008) [1]
100,000
Wikispecies (20 May 2007) [2]
75,000
Wikispecies (10 October 2006) [3]
Wikiversities by number of pages
Milestone
Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
5,000
English (? September 2007); French (? March 2009);
2,000
German (16 September 2008)
1,000
Czech (5 April 2009)
500
Italiano (? February 2008); Spanish (? March 2008)
100
Greek (? April 2008); Português (? ? 2008)
Wikimedia Commons (multilingual ) by number of media files
Milestone
Project (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
4,000,000
press release (4 March 2009)
3,500,000
(19 November 2008)
3,000,000
press release (16 July 2008)
2,500,000
(25 February 2008)
2,000,000
press release (8 October 2007)
1,750,000
(11 August 2007)
1,700,000
(late July 2007)
1,600,000
(1 July 2007)
1,500,000
news item (25 May 2007)
1,000,000
press release (30 November 2006)
600,000
news item (15 May 2006)
500,000
(25 March 2006)
100,000
press release (24 May 2005)
1,000
news item (5 October 2004)
0
news item (7 September 2004)
See also