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Hardware status
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Announcements
November 8
- Our sister project Wiktionary now has 100000 articles in English.
November 4
- Our sister project Wikiquote now has 5000 articles in English.
November 1
- We have reached 800,000 articles in the English Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia is now among the Top 40 most popular sites on the web. According to Alexa Internet our three-month averaged rank has hit a new record of 38.
October 24
- The article on Haute couture was panned in the Guardian by Alexandra Shulman, the editor of the British edition of Vogue, who gave it a score of 0/10 [1]. This article is in desperate need of expert attention. Haute couture needs your help! Please help fix its inadequacies, and polish it until it can become a featured article candidate.
- In a press release on October 20, Answers.com announced a new partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation. Answers.com will launch a Wikipedia Edition of their popular 1-Click Answers software. Advertising revenues from this service will be shared with the Wikimedia Foundation. See Wikipedia:Tools/1-Click Answers.
October 6
- Our daily Alexa Internet traffic rank has hit a new record of 31.
September 30
- Wikipedia's daily Alexa Internet traffic rank has recovered from its brief drop to a new record of 35, while the weekly traffic rank has entered the top forty for the first time.
September 29
- We have reached 750,000 articles in the English Wikipedia.
September 26
- Although Wikipedia's global traffic has risen substantially [2] in the last week with the addition of new servers, Wikipedia's daily Alexa Internet traffic rank [3] has fallen significantly over the same period, to 47.
September 20
- Wikipedia's daily Alexa Internet rank has reached a new record of thirty-six.
September 15
September 14
- The new Yahoo!-hosted server farm in Seoul [yaseo] is now in the process of being commissioned by Wikimedia's tireless developer team. [5] When up and running, this will be the Wikimedia Foundation's fourth active server farm, adding to the current server farms in Tampa, Paris, and Amsterdam.
September 6
- Wikipedia's daily Alexa traffic rank reaches #39, breaking into the top 40 for the first time.
September 5
- The Wikimedia Foundation's Q3 2005 fundraising drive breaks through its target of $200,000
September 3
- Across all Wikimedia projects and languages, the largest of which is the English-language Wikipedia, the Wikimedia servers are now serving approximately 200 million requests per day on the busiest day of each week. (source) According to Alexa, 66% of wikipedia.org traffic goes to the English Wikipedia, and, again according to Alexa, traffic for other Wikimedia projects is tiny compared to that for Wikipedia, so if we assume that (say) 95% of all Wikimedia goes to Wikipedia, and 66% of that to the English Wikipedia, that represents 125 million requests per day for the English Wikipedia.
September 1
- Another record-breaking month has just ended. The Wikipedia project gained more than 185,000 new articles in August, over 49,000 of them in English. New records were also broken by a multitude of other language versions, including the German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, and Chinese Wikipedias, and Swedish became the fifth six-figure Wikipedia project. Statistics will be uploaded here over the weekend, if not before.
Number-of-article milestones
| Milestone | Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them) |
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| 500,000 | English (17 March 2005) |
| 200,000 | German (15 February 2005) |
| 100,000 | Japanese (11 February 2005); French (20 April 2005); Swedish (27 August 2005); Italian (9 September 2005); Polish (16 September 2005); Dutch (14 October 2005) |
| 50,000 | Portuguese (21 May 2005); Spanish (30 May 2005) |
| 20,000 | Danish (5 August 2004); Esperanto (22 January 2005); Chinese (6 February 2005); Norwegian (Bokmål) (21 March 2005); Finnish (27 April 2005); Hebrew (29 May 2005); Russian (5 June 2005); Ukrainian (1 October 2005) |
| 10,000 | Bulgarian (3 October 2004); Catalan (16 November 2004); Romanian (30 December 2004); Slovenian (7 February 2005); Serbian (24 March 2005); Estonian (15 May 2005); Czech (25 May 2005); Indonesian (31 May 2005); Hungarian (4 June 2005); Korean (5 June 2005); Slovak (28 June 2005); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (7 August 2005); Croatian (8 October 2005); Ido (24 October 2005) |
| 5,000 | Galician (29 April 2005); Walloon (9 June 2005); Malay (29 June 2005); Lithuanian (4 July 2005); Luxembourgish (11 July 2005); Greek (20 August 2005); Turkish (23 August 2005); Arabic (26 August 2005); Persian (23 September 2005); Simple English (27 September 2005); Thai (28 October 2005) |
| 2,000 | Afrikaans (21 February 2004); Basque (March 2004); Latin (21 March 2004); Welsh (15 August 2004); Tatar (November 2004); Asturian (27 November 2004); Icelandic (21 February 2005); Bosnian (29 March 2005); Interlingua (19 June 2005); Georgian (19 June 2005); Macedonian (8 July 2005); Vietnamese (8 August 2005); Sicilian (26 August 2005); Albanian (20 September 2005); Kurdish (15 October 2005); Latvian (15 October 2005); Irish (21 October 2005) |
| 1,000 | West Frisian (6 June 2004); Scottish Gaelic (14 January 2005); Hindi (24 January 2005); Low Saxon (30 January 2005); Belarusan (21 February 2005); Javanese (7 May 2005); Ossetian (20 May 2005); Marathi (1 June 2005); Min Nan (30 June 2005); Tagalog (2 July 2005); Tamil (13 August 2005); Telugu (17 August 2005); Limburgish (25 August 2005); Kannada (30 August 2005); Faroese (3 September 2005); Breton (19 September 2005); Serbo-Croatian (7 October 2005); Chuvash (12 October 2005); Alemannic (13 October 2005); Occitan (16 October 2005); Corsican (18 October 2005) |
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