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March 28, 2008

10 Millionth Article Written on Wikipedia

Michael Arrington

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The ten millionth article has been written on Wikipedia - a Hungarian biography of of 16th century painter Nicholas Hilliard (English version here).

Those ten million articles have been written across 250 different languages, Wikipedia says. English is still the most popular language on Wikipedia, with 2.3 million articles (they reached 2 million English articles in September 2007). After English, the next most popular languages are German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

See here for an article count by language.

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  1. Shafqat

    March 28th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    Congrats to the Wikimedia Foundation… despite all the criticism it seems to draw nowadays, Wikipedia will forever be remembered a one of the hallmarks of this new technological era. I really hope it continues to so effectively serve the millions of people who use it each day.

  2. Everett

    March 28th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    Congrats to Wiki but what’s going on with Jimbo ;)

  3. SearcH◆ EngineS WEB

    March 28th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    This is a testament to how the right idea at the right time - can capture the world’s imagination.

    But let us not forget, it is quality not quantity of information

  4. Victor Caballero

    March 28th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    Wiki is great. I use it all the time and try to make contributions. Congrats!

  5. Luis Pereira

    March 28th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

    They are crowdsourcing masters. Lets see if Jimbo can pull off Wikia Search now.

  6. Hagia Sophia

    March 28th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    The way the internet is spread they will reach 20 million in much less time…

  7. Nat

    March 28th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    10 million worth of knowledge and going stronger , even my 11 years old son uses it all the time, congrats Jimbo.

    Nat
    http://www.workersinc.com

  8. Web 2.0 Blog

    March 28th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    Thank you Wikipedia! Still saving my life :) I hope the database will continue growing that fast.

  9. Midland Texas Al

    March 28th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    How Do you measure Success?

    Last week i signed my 7 year old son up for baseball and on the way home from our first practice, i told him that we needed to go to the book store to buy some beginners books and we need to start watching baseball on TV.

    He replied, “or i can just go to Wikipedia and learn about the game”

    Enough said.

  10. Web 2.0 Asia

    March 28th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    Although it might be an Apple-to-Orange comparison, Korea’s Naver Q&A (copied by Yahoo Q&A) has 70million+ entries, and that’s mostly in one language (Korean) only.

  11. Tony

    March 28th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    Congrats co-founder Larry Sanger!

  12. antje wilsch

    March 28th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    @tony - yay for Larry too!

  13. CARversation.com

    March 28th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    YAY Wiki is the SHI$

  14. lawrence

    March 28th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    the 10Mth article - what a milestone…where will this event party be held at?

  15. Michael B

    March 28th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    Congratulations wikipedia!!!

    -Visit my site for ways to make money online http://mikesmoneyclub.blogspot.com/

  16. pKay

    March 28th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    Incredible!

    Well done Wikipedia! Can’t wait to see the 20 millionth in a few more years!

    pKay.

  17. panzer

    March 29th, 2008 at 4:10 am

    Gracias a la Wikipedia muchos bloggers completamos nuestros articulos, gracias Wikipedia!

  18. peterpoe

    March 29th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    Take a look at Wikirandom!

  19. Michi

    March 30th, 2008 at 8:00 am

    Congratulations Wikipedia! I love you.

  20. *

    March 30th, 2008 at 10:06 am

    Im shure it will only grow from here today 10 Million a year from now it could be double. =)

  21. Tyler

    March 31st, 2008 at 9:22 am

    Hooray for Wiki. What’s the prize?

  22. miklos

    March 31st, 2008 at 12:46 pm

    Gratulálunk!

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