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In particular, this page lists article-count milestones. Recommended ones are 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k increments to 20k, 10k increments to 100k, 25k increments to 250k, 50k increments to 500k, and 100k increments to 1000k. Try mixing things up with other milestones, such as active users or new articles per day.

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See also : Goings-on

February 2006

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  • The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles and 50,000 total pages in the database.
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January 2006

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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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)
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); 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); Hungarian;

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)
500 Arabic (19 October 2005); Hebrew (23 October 2005); Swedish (6 February 2006)
100 Danish; Greek; Dutch; Portuguese; Korean (27 September 2005) Turkish (12 February 2006);

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