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February 2006

20

• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users!

18

• The Polish Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.
• The Persian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Spanish Wiktionary has reached 4,000 articles.
• wikt:en:User:RobotGMwikt has over 100.000 edits .. a kind of sad milestone.

17

• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 7,000 entries.

16

• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 17,000 articles.
• The Alemannic Wikipedia has reached 500 registered users.
• English Wikibooks has reached 14,000 modules.

15

• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.

14

• The Vietnamese Wiktionary now has over 700 entries. The 700^th entry is nhà đoan, a colonial-era word in the Vietnamese language meaning "naval customs-house". The entry was written by HanhThao.
• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
• The Bulgarian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.

12

• The Turkish Wikisource has reached 100 text units.
• The Bosnian Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
• The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 17,000 articles.
• The Greek Wikipedia has reached 2,000 registered users.
• The Yiddish Wikipedia has reached 700 articles.
• The Estonian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Interlingua Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.
• The Wikislovar (Russian wiktionary) has reached 3,000 entries.

11

• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.
• The Venetian Wikipedia has hit the 100 article milestone with an article about Earth Sciences.

9

• The Swedish Wiktionary has reached 8,000 articles.

8

• Wikipedia has risen into top 25 most popular sites on the web according to Alexa Internet.
• The Korean Wikisource has reached 200 text units.

7

• The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles and 50,000 total pages in the database.

6

• The Norwegian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikibooks has reached 1,000 modules.
• The Swedish Wikisource has reached 500 articles.

5

• The Norwegian (bokmål) Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages. It is also getting close to 50,000 articles.
• The Tamil Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles. The 40,000th was the article Sorgà, a community in Italy.

4

• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has a total of over 25,000 pages (including redirects and pages outside of the article namespace). The 25,000^th page was Kasparov, Garry Kirmovich, a redirect to the article on chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
• The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles with Peszternye.
• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.

3

• The Luxembourgish Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles.
• The Greek Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has over 2,000 uploaded files, not including the many thousands of files available through Wikimedia Commons. The 2,000^th file was a photograph of the home of American architect Robert Venturi, uploaded by Mth.
• Research shows that the Sardinian Wikipedia passed the 100 article mark on this date.

2

• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The English Wikipedia has reached 950,000 articles.
• The German Wikipedia has reached 350,000 articles.
• The Catalan Wikibooks has reach 100 modules.

1

• Japanese Wikipedia has been awarded the 11th AMD Award, Digital Contents of the Year'05, Best Writer prize by Association of Media In Digital.
• The French Wikisource has reached 10,000 articles.

January 2006

31

• The German-language Wikinews has reached 3,000 articles.
• The Breton wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.
• The Slovenian Wikiquote has reached 500 articles.
• The Russian Wikisource has reached 1,000 articles.

30

• The Albanian Wikipedia has reached 6,000 articles.
• The Thai Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.

29

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

28

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia celebrates the Vietnamese New Year by featuring a vastly improved article on Tết and by gaining its 5,000^th article, Kỷ Sửu (Yin Earth Ox), one of 60 new articles on the years of the sexagenary cycle, created by the DHN-bot. Sunday marks the beginning of the year Bính Tuất – the Yang Fire Dog year.

27

• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

26

• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles with Siedlisko
• The Basque Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Serbian Wikipedia continues its surge of page creation, reaching 25,000 articles.
• The Chinese Wikisource has reached 1,500 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles. There is an average of 250 new articles per day. There are 38,423 registered users and 46 administrators. The Community has also voted for an official logotype for the celebration, which will replace the Wikipedia logo for 15 days on all pages. The logo can be found at this link.
• The Wikitsitatnik (Russian Wikiqoute) has reached 1000 articles
• The Pushto Wikipedia reached 100 articles on this date.

25

• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 21,000 articles.

24

• The Slovenian Wikipedia now has over 2,000 registered users.
• The Japanese Wiktionary has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 125,000 articles.

23

• The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Lojban Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.

22

• The Cebuano Wikipedia has again reached 1,000 articles.

21

• The Japanese Wikipedia has reached 175,000 articles.
• The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 17,000 articles.
• The Cebuano Wikipedia has fallen beneath 1,000 articles.
• The Venetian Wikipedia has reached 50 articles.
• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 2,000 articles.

19

• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 16,000 articles.

18

• The Swedish Wikinews has reached 1,000 articles.

17

• The French Wikipedia has reached 225,000 articles.
• The Turkish Wikipedia now has over 10,000 registered users.
• The Yiddish Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

15

• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 175,000 articles and has moved into fourth place among Wikis (by conservative article count) by passing the Japanese Wikipedia.
• The Azeri (Azərbaycanca) Wikipedia has reached 2,500 articles.
• The Uzbek (O'zbek) Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Hebrew Wikiquote has reached 500 articles.
• The Japanese Wikibooks has reached 500 modules.

14

• The Wikitsitatnik (Russian Wikiqoute) has reached 500 articles

13

• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 1,500 articles.
• The Sicilian Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.
• The Greek Wikipedia has reached 7,500 articles.
• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 1,000 articles.

12

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia now has over 5,000 registered users – far more than any other Wikipedia edition its size.
• The Galician Wikiquote has reached 100 articles.

10

• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 15,000 articles.
• The U.S.P.T.O. grants Wikimedia Foundation Inc., registered status to the Wikipedia, mark which should now be written Wikipedia® when giving notice of this legal status.

7

• The Korean Wiktionary has reached 2,000 articles.

6

• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 17,000 articles with Eastern Front (World War II).

5

• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 800 articles.
• The Tok Pisin Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.
• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 18,000 articles.

4

• The French Wiktionary has become the biggest Wiktionary by number of articles, overtaking the English one.
• The English Wikipedia has reached 900,000 articles.
• The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
• The Alemannic Wikipedia has reached 1,500 articles.
• Wikipedia has reached the daily top 25 in Alexa's ranking for the first time.[1]

3

• The Spanish Wikibooks has reached 1,000 modules.

1

• The Slovak Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The French Wiktionary has reached 100,000 articles with the English word mourning.

Projects by number of articles/pages

Wikipedias

Wikipedias by number of articles

Milestone	Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
900,000	English (4 January 2006)
800,000
700,000
600,000
500,000
400,000
300,000	German (7 October 2005)
250,000
200,000	French (4 December 2005); Polish (26 January 2006)
150,000	Japanese (24 October 2005);
100,000	Swedish (27 August 2005); Italian (9 September 2005); Dutch (14 October 2005); Portuguese (26 January 2006)
90,000	Spanish (27 January 2006)
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000	Chinese (13 December 2005); Russian (23 December 2005); Norwegian (Bokmål) (6 February 2006); Finnish (20 February 2006)
40,000	Esperanto (5 February 2006)
30,000	Danish (18 August 2005); Hebrew (4 January 2006)
20,000	Ukrainian (1 October 2005); Catalan (18 November 2005); Hungarian (21 November 2005); Bulgarian (24 November 2005); Czech (2 December 2005); Slovenian (17 December 2005); Slovak (1 January 2006); Serbian (25 January 2006); Romanian (7 February 2006); Korean (12 Feburary 2006)
15,000	Indonesian (25 December 2005); Turkish (23 January 2006); Estonian (12 February 2006)
10,000	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (7 August 2005); Croatian (8 October 2005); Ido (24 October 2005); Galician (13 November 2005); Lithuanian (14 December 2005); Malay (21 December 2005, 23 December 2005); Arabic (25 December 2005); Persian (18 February 2006)
5,000	Walloon (10 June 2004); Luxembourgish (11 July 2004); Greek (20 August 2005); Simple English (27 September 2005); Thai (28 October 2005); Icelandic (12 November 2005); Bosnian (25 November 2005); Albanian (28 December 2005); Basque (26 January 2006); Vietnamese (28 January 2006)
2,000	Afrikaans (21 February 2004); Latin (21 March 2004); Welsh (15 August 2004); Tatar (November 2004); Asturian (27 November 2004); Interlingua (20 June 2005); Georgian (20 June 2005); Macedonian (8 July 2005); Sicilian (26 August 2005); Latvian (15 October 2005); Kurdish (15 October 2005); Irish (21 October 2005); Western Frisian (29 October 2005); Breton (6 November 2005); Neapolitan (6 November 2005); Tagalog (20 November 2005); Serbo-Croatian (20 November 2005); Telugu (23 November 2005); Belarusian (6 December 2005); Low Saxon (27 December 2005); Azeri (15 January 2006); Marathi (2 February 2006); Tamil (5 February 2006)
1,000	Scots Gaelic (7 January 2005); Hindi (25 January 2005); Javanese (7 May 2005); Ossetian (20 May 2005); Southern Min (30 June 2005); Limburgish (25 August 2005); Kannada (30 August 2005); Faroese (2 September 2005); Chuvash (11 October 2005); Alemannic (13 October 2005); Occitan (16 October 2005); Corsican (18 October 2005); Scots (29 October 2005); Aragonese (30 December 2005); Cebuano (30 December 2005, 22 January 2006)
500	Sundanese (4 September 2004); Armenian (5 April 2005); Kashubian (14 May 2005); Northern Sami (30 May 2005); Cornish (7 August 2005); Sanskrit (19 August 2005); Anglo-Saxon (14 September 2005); Urdu (19 September 2005); Waray-Waray (26 October 2005); Bengali (10 November 2005); Kapampangan (4 December 2005); Yiddish (17 January 2006)
100	Kashmiri (4 October 2004); Maori (5 October 2004); Interlingue (18 November 2004); Malayalam (7 December 2004); Tok Pisin (15 April 2005); Gujarati (19 May 2005); Maltese (4 June 2005); Haitian Creole (8 June 2005); Nauruan (17 June 2005); Nahuatl (19 June 2005); Mongolian (3 July 2005); Malagasy (14 July 2005); Romansh (19 July 2005); Lingala (31 July 2005); Moldovan (7 August 2005); Friulian (3 October 2005); Ilokano (24 October 2005); Võro (30 October 2005); Amharic (19 November 2005); Swahili (20 November 2005); Udmurt (22 November 2005); Uzbek (O'zbek) (15 January 2006); Lojban (23 January 2006) ; Pushto (26 January 2006); Sardinian (3 February 2006); Venetian (11 February 2006)

Wiktionaries

Wiktionaries by number of articles

Milestone	Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
150,000
100,000	English (8 November 2005); French (1 January 2006)
50,000
40,000	Polish (18 February 2006)
30,000	Italian (5 August 2005); Ido (29 December 2005); Chinese (11 February 2006)
20,000	Bulgarian (28 April 2005); Dutch (29 September 2005)
15,000	Galician (22 September 2005); Finnish (10 November 2005); German (11 January 2006)
10,000	Portuguese (30 December 2005); Kurdish (1 January 2006)
5,000	Sicilian (4 February 2005); Hungarian (9 March 2005); Estonian (26 June 2005); Swedish (17 October 2005); Japanese (24 January 2006); Greek (4 February 2006); Slovenian (7 February 2006)
2,000	Latin (7 June 2004); Spanish (11 July 2005); Norwegian (23 July 2005); Russian (11 October 2005); Korean (7 January 2006)
1,000	Hindi (20 February 2005); Corsican (15 May 2005); Danish (26 May 2005); Anglo-Saxon (24 June 2005); Hebrew (6 August 2005); Turkish (21 September 2005); Tamil (25 November 2005); Persian (29 November 2005)
500	Croatian (21 February 2005); Czech (9 November 2005); Icelandic (7 December 2005); Vietnamese (25 December 2005); Slovak (28 December 2005); Afrikaans (29 December 2005); Arabic (23 January 2006)
100	Romanian; Interlingua (24 February 2005); Esperanto (6 July 2004); Gujarati (28 November 2004); Catalan (5 December 2004); Serbian (5 April 2005); Bosnian (5 May 2005); Interlingue (12 June 2005); Low Saxon (25 July 2005); Ukrainian (2 September 2005); Indonesian (20 September 2005); Kazakh (1 October 2005); Yiddish (8 November 2005); Malayalam (17 November 2005)

Wikiquotes

Wikiquotes by number of pages

Milestone	Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
5,000	English (4 November 2005)
2,000	German (6 February 2005); French (28 April 2005); Bulgarian (23 September 2005); Polish (11 November 2005); Italian (26 November 2005); Portuguese (23 December 2005)
1,000	Spanish (28 December 2005); Russian (26 January 2006); Slovenian (4 February 2006); Bosnian (5 February 2006)
500	Indonesian (23 December 2005); Slovak (8 January 2006); Hebrew (15 January 2006)
100	Norwegian; Swedish; Chinese (26 December 2004); Japanese (17 January 2005); Dutch (5 February 2005); Czech (1 June 2005); Finnish (14 August 2005); Esperanto (28 August 2005); Arabic (15 September 2005); Hungarian (11 November 2005); Persian (4 December 2005); Galician (12 January 2006); Greek (26 January 2006); Turkish (11 February 2006); Kurdish (14 February 2006); Lithuanian (19 February 2006)

Wikibooks

Wikibooks by number of book modules

Milestone	Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
10,000	English (28 July 2005)
5,000
2,000	German (4 July 2005)
1,000	French (14 July 2005); Spanish (3 January 2006); Portuguese (6 February 2006)
500	Polish (9 October 2005); Italian (10 December 2005); Dutch (19 December 2005); Japanese (15 January 2006)
100	Hebrew (May 2005); Hungarian; Swedish (January 2005); Danish (27 June 2005); Korean (6 June 2005); Russian (18 April 2005); Finnish (8 July 2005); Esperanto (21 July 2005); Czech (July 2005); Chinese (August 2005); Anglo-Saxon (27 October 2005); Slovak (2 November 2005); Arabic (14 November 2005); Tamil (December 2005); Galacian (December 2005); Catalan (2 February 2006)

Wikinews

Wikinews by number of pages

Milestone	Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
5,000
2,000	English (23 May 2005); German (13 Sep 2005)
1,000	Polish (31 July 2005); Italian (5 December 2005); Portuguese (28 November 2005); Spanish (27 December 2005); Swedish (18 January 2006)
500	Japanese (24 October 2005); French (24 November 2005)
100	Romanian (27 April 2005); Dutch (27 May 2005); Ukrainian (12 September 2005); Russian (20 December 2005)

Wikisources

Wikisource by number of pages

Milestone	Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
20,000	English (27 November 2005)
15,000
10,000	French (1 February 2006)
5,000	Spanish (7 November 2005)
2,000	German; Romanian; Polish (28 December 2005)
1,000	Latin (23 October 2005); Chinese (6 December 2005); Italian (21 December 2005); Russian (31 January 2006); Turkish (18 February 2006)
500	Arabic (19 October 2005); Hebrew (23 October 2005); Swedish (6 February 2006)
100	Danish; Greek; Dutch; Portuguese; Korean (27 September 2005)

Archive

• Wikimedia News/2005
• Wikimedia News/2004
• Wikimedia News/2003
• Wikimedia News/2002

See also

• All Wikipedias ordered by number of articles
• List of Wikibooks ordered by number of book modules