Wikimedia News/2008

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Progress in 2008

• Wikipedia begins the year with 12,021,330 articles. One year ago there were 9,253,264 articles. There has been an increase of 2,768,066 articles, which means there are 29.91% more articles.
• Now there are 24 Wikipedias with more than 100,000 articles (one year ago, there were 15), 81 with more than 10,000 (75), 163 with more than 1,000 (147), and 233 with more than 100 (211).

December 2008

30

• The Võro Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

29

• The Danish Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles with Fuhse.

28

• Wikispecies has reached 20,000 registered users.
• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles with Guerra dels Ossos.

26

• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 8,000 articles.

24

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles with Grand-Brassac.

21

• The West Frisian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles with Schotanusatlas.
• The Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

17

• The Hakka Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

15

• The Komi Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

14

• The Sardinian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

Statistics showing new articles on Swedish Wikipedia, December 13.

13

• The Swedish Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles with article Arvidsjaurs kyrka.
• The Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles with John de Vere, 12. jarl av Oxford. Press release (in Norwegian).

6

• The Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.

5

• The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has now 100 local images.

3

• The Croatian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Luxembourgish Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles with article Pierre Biwer.

Czech Wikinews

2

• The Komi Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Czech Wikinews has reached 500 articles.

November 2008

30

• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 500,000 articles. Press release (in Dutch).

29

• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 2,000,000 edits.
• The Czech Wikinews has reached 5,000th revision.

28

• Wikispecies has reached 10,000 registered users.

27

• The Khmer Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

26

• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 15,000,000 edits.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 333,333 articles.

24

• The Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia has been created (bug 15013).

23

• The Gilaki Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

21

• The Russian Wikisource has reached 20,000 articles.

20

• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles with 큰곰자리 운동성단 (Ursa Major Moving Group).
• The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles with Seiclo yng Ngemau Olympaidd yr Haf 1984 (Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics).

19

• Wikimedia Commons has reached 3,500,000 media files.
• The Finnish Wiktionary has reached 100,000 articles.

17

• The Manx Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles with baagh (animal).
• The Alemannic Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Classical Chinese Wikipedia, French Wikinews, Russian Wikiquote, and Russian Wikisource have all enabled the FlaggedRevs MediaWiki extension.

15

• The Javanese Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Silesian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles, and since then accept second ortography, written in Steuer's Silesian alphabet.

13

• The Arabic Wikiquote has reached 1,000 registered users.

8

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia redesigns its front page for the first time since 2005.

7

• The French Wikiquote has reached 10,000 quotes.
• The Georgian Wiktionary has reached 200 articles.
• The Esperanto Wikipedia gains its 10,000th registered user, W. Edlmeier.

6

• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

4

• The Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

3

• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

1

• The Tagalog Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles with the article Anak ng tao (Son of man).

October 2008

30

• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.

29

• The Persian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Fiji Hindi Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Navajo Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

28

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia gains its 90,000^th registered user, Phạm Quang Minh.

27

• The Thai Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

26

• The Malayalam Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles.
• The Sakha Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

24

• The Mazandarani Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

23

• The Azeri Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

20

• The Mazandarani Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

19

• Hot on the heels of the English edition, the French Wiktionary also reaches the 1,000,000-entry mark.

18

• The English Wiktionary has reached 1,000,000 entries. (By some counts, this happened on 17 Oct.)

17

• The Occitan Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

16

• The Czech Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.

14

• The Czech Wikiversity has reached 500 articles.

13

• The English Wikipedia has reached 1,000 Featured lists.

12

• The Galician Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 7,000 articles with Кіровоград.

9

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia reaches 60,000 articles with Logo trường Đại học Bách khoa thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, an article about the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology's logo, by Nguyễn Kim Kha.

8

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 90,000 articles.

5

• Meta has reached 100,000 registered users.

3

• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 500,000 articles.

2

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 80,000 articles.

September 2008

29

• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Cebuano Wikipedia has reached 35,000 articles.

25

• The Bangla Wikisource has reached 1,000 pages.

22

• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Esperanto Wikipedia Main Page after a poll has a full renewed look.

21

• The Arabic Wikisource has reached 2,000 registered users.
• The Romanian Wiktionary has reached 20,000 articles.

20

• The Bavarian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 400,000 articles.

15

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 70,000 articles and 100,000 pages total.
• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

14

• The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.

12

• The Basque Wikipedia has reached with Sexu 30,000 articles.

9

• The Malayalam Wikipedia has reached 7,500 articles at a page depth of 120.

6

• The German Wikipedia has reached with Lis 800,000 total articles.
• The Guarani Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

5

• The Nahuatl Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• After dropping from over 3,400 articles to below 1,900 in July 2008, the Wu Wikipedia has again reached 2,000 articles.
• The Central Bicolano Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

2

• A day after the French edition, the English Wiktionary reaches 900,000 entries.

1

• The French Wiktionary has reached 900,000 entries.

August 2008

31

• The Georgian Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.
• The French Wikipedia has reached 700,000 articles.

30

• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 75,000 articles with the creation of ترتيب الصحارى من حيث المساحة.

29

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 90,000 entries.

28

• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 3,000,000th revision.

27

• The Slovak Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles.

26

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 60,000 articles.

25

The Vietnamese Wikipedia celebrates its 50,000-article (5 vạn bài) milestone with billiards.

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia reaches 50,000 articles as an anonymous user writes about Carano, a comune in northern Italy.
• The English Wiktionary has now more articles than the French Wiktionary (both almost reaching 900,000). Previously, the French Wiktionary had more articles.

21

• The Spanish Wikisource has reached 37,000 pages.
• The Aragonese Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles with Monesterio de San Per de Ziresa.

19

• Of the Italian Wikisource's over 19,000 texts, 60 are formatted as Wikisource Editions (Edizioni Wikisource), 122 have been proofread by two or more persons (SAL 100%), and a further 646 have been proofread by at least one person (SAL 75%). The author index now exceeds 475.

17

• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

12

• The Haitian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

11

• The English Wikipedia has reached 2,500,000 articles.

9

• The Arabic Wikinews has reached 500 registered users.

7

• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.

6

• The Gujarati Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

5

• The Arabic Wikipedia has 2,000,000 edits.

4

• The Irish Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikisource has reached 36,000 pages.

2

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 3,000 entries.
• The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.

July 2008

The Chinese wikipedia commemorates its 200,000th article

31

• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles. But a Simplified－Traditional Redirect bug has caused some redirect pages that used for redirections between two types of Chinese characters ("Traditional" and "Simplified") were counted as the "real articles". see bugzilla:14553. Also, the Chinese Wikipedia is unblocked in China.

24

• The Upper Sorbian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

19

• The Malayalam Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.

18

• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 14,000 entries.

The Hungarian Wikipedia celebrates its 100,000-article milestone.

17

• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles.
• The Persian Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
• The Hungarian Wikipedia passes the 100,000-article milestone with Erdődi Simon.
• The Spanish Wikisource has reached 35,000 pages.

16

• Wikimedia Commons has reached 3,000,000 media files.

14

• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 6,000 users.
• The Romanian Wiktionary has reached 15,000 articles.

13

• The Danish Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

Czech Wikisource

12

• Wikispecies has 500,000 edits.
• The Czech Wikisource has reached 5,000 pages with Adonis.

2

• The Polish Wikibooks has reached 3,000 articles.

June 2008

29

• Galizionario, the Galician Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.
• The Malayalam Wikipedia has over 200,000 edits.

25

• The Chinese Wikinews has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Japanese Wikipedia has reached 500,000 articles

24

• The Bambara Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

22

• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 400,000 articles with Saint-Estèphe (Gironde) (French village and commune).

20

• The Breton Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

Czech Wikipedia

19

• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles with Vlajka Vanuatu (Flag of Vanuatu).

16

• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 200,000 registered users.
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 40,000 registered users.

Esperanto Wikipedia

15

• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles with monfalsado (counterfeiting of money).
• The Afrikaans Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

12

• The Alemannic Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.

10

• The Gan Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

8

• The Tumbuka Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Czech Wiktionary has reached 3,000 articles with father-in-law, by Reaperman.

5

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 50,000 articles.

4

• The Estonian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles with Istuv Sõnn (Sitting Bull).

1

• The Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

May 2008

31

• The Interlingue Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

29

• The Hindi Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

27

• Lithuanian Wiktionary has now 200,000 revisions.

26

• Fifteen wikis have been created: Erzya Wikipedia, Extremaduran Wikipedia, Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, Gan Wikipedia, Karakalpak Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Czech Wikinews, Hungarian Wikinews, Limburgish Wikisource, Czech Wikiversity, Japanese Wikiversity and Portuguese Wikiversity.
• The Gujarati Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

Czech Wikiquote

24

• The Czech Wikiquote has reached 1,000 articles with Kurdská přísloví (Kurdish proverbs) by Danny B.

19

• Meta has now 1,000,000 revisions with this edit.

17

• The German Wikipedia has reached with Johann Friedrich Bahrdt (Schriftsteller) 750,000 total articles.
• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 13,000 entries with the great help of S.Örvarr.S and Piolinfax

14

• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 5,000 articles with з'єднання by A1.
• The Polish Wikipedia reaches 500,000 articles when PMG started the article USS Mississippi (BB-23)!

13

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia reaches 200,000 pages total as an anonymous user starts the talk page Thảo luận:Natalie du Toit. AppleBot has been automatically welcoming new users, and various users have been writing stubs on localities in Spain.

11

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia passes the 40,000-article milestone as Genghiskhan writes about San Silvestre de Guzmán, a locality in Spain.

8

• The Latin Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

7

• The Russian Wikisource has reached 15,000 articles.

6

• The Arabic Wiktionary has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 4,000 articles with окопчик.

5

• The Yiddish Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Maltese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

2

• The Franco-Provençal/Arpitan Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

April 2008

29

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 40,000 articles.

27

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 2,000 articles.

26

• The Classical Chinese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

22

• The Japanese Wiktionary has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Haitian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

21

• The English Wikipedia has reached 4,000 good articles.
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 2,500,000 revisions.

20

• The Malayalam Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.

19

• The Albanian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

18

• The Portuguese Wikinews has reached 3,000 articles.

17

• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.

12

• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 4,000 registered users.

10

• The English Wikipedia has reached 2,000 Featured Articles.

9

• The Malayalam Wikipedia has reached 6,000 articles.
• The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.

7

• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 350,000 articles with Frank Agostino.

5

• The Malay Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries with langit.

4

• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 3,000 entries.

3

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.

1

• The Kapampangan Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles with Lasetas.

March 2008

29

• The Gujarati Wikipedia has reached 500 articles with ભજન.
• The Czech Wikisource, this day celebrating the 2nd anniversary, has 4,339 pages, 15th place in the Wikisource ranking list.

28

Ukrainian Wikipedia 100,000 articles logo.

• The Ukrainian Wikipedia reached 100,000 articles with Гойтосир.
• The Min Nan Wiktionary reaches 25,000 edits as A-yao creates the article Pebrero which is the Tagalog word of February.

27

• The Haitian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles, as Masterches created the article Henri Pade.
• The Min Nan Wikipedia reaches 3,000 articles as Kiatgak makes the article Leonhard Euler.

26

• The total number of articles in all Wikipedias has reached 10,000,000, with the Hungarian biography of 16th century painter Nicholas Hilliard. (Press release)
• The Manx Wikipedia reaches 1,000 articles as MacTire02 creates Tungsten.
• The Sinhalese Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

23

• The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles with Polydore Vergil.

22

• The Arabic Wiktionary has 250,000 edits.
• The Arabic Wikiquote has reached 500 registered users.
• The Sardinian Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

21

• The English Wikiquote has reached 15,000 article with Nicholas Roerich posted by Kalki.

20

• The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.
• The Walloon Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

18

• The Tamil Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
• The French Wikiquote has reached 1,000 articles.

17

• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 250,000 articles.
• The Zamboanga Chavacano Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

16

• The English Wiktionary has reached 750,000 entries.

15

• The Belarusian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

13

• The Spanish Wikinews has reached 3,000 news.

12

• The Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Central Bicolano Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

10

• The Kazakh Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 12,000 entries with ára.

7

• The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• The Marathi Wikipedia has 40,000 total pages.

6

• The Swati Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Czech Wikisource reached the 20,000th edit

4

• The Thai Wikipedia has 40,000 registered users.

3

• The Khmer Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

1

• The Kongo Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

February 2008

28

• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

27

• The Turkmen Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

25

• The Wikimedia Commons has reached 2,500,000 media files.
• The Ossetian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

23

• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 1,500,000 edits (a few days ago).
• The Aymar Wikipedia reaches 500 articles.
• The Xhosa Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.

22

• The Thai Wikipedia has 1,000,000 edits.

19

• The German Wikipedia has reached 2,000,000 total pages.
• The Chechen Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

17

• The Wu Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• Interwiki bot Purbo T is user number 10,000 of the Ukrainian Wikipedia.

16

• The Haitian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

15

• The Saterland Frisian Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.
• The Icelandic Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

13

• The Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikibooks has reached 15,000 total pages.

12

• The Georgian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

10

• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

9

• The Hawaiian Wikipedia gains its 1,000^th article as user Kamehameha writes about Santibáñez del Val (Burgos), a municipality in Spain. Over the past few days, Kamehameha has created hundreds of one-line stubs on Spanish localities.

8

• The Limburgish Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entrees with 憟‎ by OwtbBot.

Turkish Wikipedia 100,000 articles logo.

6

• The Danish Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Zazaki Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

5

• The Limburgish Wiktionary reached 10,000 articles with Limburg. It has doubled in size in just 3 days.
• The Igbo Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

4

• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.

3

• The Turkish Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles.

Vietnamese Wikipedia 30,000 articles logo.

2

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia reaches 30,000 articles, about 98% of which was created by hand, as an anonymous user writes Bộ Bạch quả on a biological order that includes Ginkgo biloba.
• The Limburgish Wiktionary reaches 5,000 articles with zin by OosWesThoesBes. It has grown 500 articles in a single day.
• The Luxembourgish Wikipedia reaches 20,000 articles with TSV Schwieberdingen.

January 2008

30

• The Zealandic Wikipedia reaches 500 articles.
• The Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia reaches 15,000 articles.
• The Norwegian (Bokmål) Wikipedia reaches 150,000 articles.
• The German Wikipedia reaches 700,000 articles.
• The Wu Wikipedia reaches 1,000 articles.

29

• The Italian Wikinews reaches 5,000 articles.
• The Malay Wiktionary has reached 500 words with 刈.
• The Romansh Wikipedia reaches 2,000 articles.

28

• The Wu Wikipedia reaches 500 articles.

25

• The Lithuanian Wikipedia reaches 60,000 articles.
• The Samogitian Wikipedia reaches 5,000 articles.

24

• The Ukrainian Wikipedia reaches 90,000 articles.

22

• The Italian Wikipedia reaches 400,000 articles.

21

• The Croatian Wikipedia reaches 40,000 articles.

Catalan Wikipedia 100,000 articles logo.

18

• The Catalan Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles.
• The Dutch Wikipedia reaches 400,000 articles.

Persian Wikiquote 500 pages logo.

13

• The Crimean Tatar Wikipedia reaches 500 articles.
• The Persian Wikiquote reaches 500 pages of quotes.

12

• The Crimean Tatar Wikipedia, Lower Sorbian Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia and Greek Wikiversity have been created.

11

• The Romanian Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles.
• The Persian Wikipedia reaches 30,000 articles.

10

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 20,000 articles.

9

• The Hebrew Wikipedia reaches 70,000 articles.

Korean Wikipedia 50,000 articles logo.

4

• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikinews was edited for the 50,000^th time, as Abmac edited the page Usuário Discussão:VSTMS.

3

• The Yoruba Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has 1,000,000 edits.

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