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In particular, this page lists article-count milestones. Recommended ones are 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k, 5k increments to 20k, 10k increments to 100k, 50k increments to 200k, 100k increments to 1M, 500k increments to 2M, 1M increments to 10M. Try mixing things up with other milestones, such as active users or new articles per day.

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[edit] December 2009

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[edit] November 2009

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Serbian Wikipedia
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[edit] October 2009

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  • The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles, becoming the 58th Wikipedia to do so.
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[edit] September 2009

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The Vietnamese Wikipedia rises to 100,000 articles in a metaphorical hot-air balloon.
  • The Vietnamese Wikipedia pushes past the 100,000-article mark with "Shenyang J-11", part of a series of articles on military aircraft by Nalzogul. Around 5% of the Vietnamese Wikipedia's articles were originally created by bots.
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Czech Wikisource
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[edit] August 2009

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Czech Wiktionary
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  • The Burmese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles (some day between August 21 and 26).
  • The Hakka Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles (some day between August 21 and 26).
  • The Lojban Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles (some day between August 21 and 26).
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Portuguese Wikipedia 500,000 articles
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[edit] July 2009

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  • The Ladino Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
  • The English Wikipedia has reached 300,000,000 edits. The 300,000,000th edit can be found here as WP 1.0 Bot adds two and removes three entries

[edit] June 2009

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Russian Wikipedia 400,000 articles
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Korean Wikipedia 100,000
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The localized logo for ml Wikipedia
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[edit] May 2009

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Logo of Ukrainian Wikipedia with 150,000 articles
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Logo of Ukrainian Wiktionary with 20,000 articles
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The localized logo for Ido Wiktionary
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[edit] April 2009

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  • Meta has reached 250,000 registered users.
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Chinese Wikipedia 250,000
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Czech Wikisource – Wikizdroje
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9
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Czech Wikiversity
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[edit] March 2009

Czech Wikibooks
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  • The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has reached 500,000 wiki pages (including articles, talk pages, category pages, redirects, image descriptions, templates, etc.)
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[edit] February 2009

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[edit] January 2009

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  • The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages had its millionth edit (not counting deleted ones) in the first hours of the new year. It added Prositt Neujohr! about a little poem, a traditional new year morning greeting, to be recited before breakfast, while presenting a pretzel shaped sweet bread to the family.


[edit] Projects by number of articles/pages

[edit] Wikipedias

Wikipedias by milestone of articles
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
5,000,000
4,000,000
3,000,000 English (17 August 2009)
2,000,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
900,000 German (4 May 2009)
800,000 French (6 May 2009)
700,000
600,000 Polish (30 April 2009); Japanese (8 July 2009); Italian (28 August 2009)
500,000 Dutch (30 November 2008); Spanish (5 August 2009); Portuguese (12 August 2009)
400,000 Russian (16 June 2009)
300,000 Swedish (13 December 2008)
200,000 Chinese (31 July 2008); Norwegian bokmål (13 December 2008); Finnish (12 April 2009); Catalan (21 September 2009)
150,000 Ukrainian (30 May 2009)
100,000 Volapük (7 September 2007); Romanian (11 January 2008); Turkish (3 February 2008); Esperanto (15 June 2008); Czech (19 June 2008); Hungarian (17 July 2008); Slovak (28 August 2008); Danish (29 December 2008); Indonesian (22 February 2009); Arabic (25 May 2009); Korean (4 June 2009); Vietnamese (12 September 2009) Serbian (20 November 2009);
90,000 Hebrew (31 March 2009); Lithuanian (3 August 2009)
80,000 Bulgarian (30 September 2009); Slovenian (12 October 2009); Persian (5 October 2009)
70,000 Croatian (18 October 2009); Estonian (15 December 2009)
60,000
50,000 Haitian (20 August 2008); Simple English (6 January 2009); Nepal Bhasa (15 April 2009); Norwegian Nynorsk (9 July 2009); Galician (23 July 2009); Thai (4 September 2009); Malay (24 September 2009); Hindi (30 September 2009)
40,000 Telugu (8 May 2008); Greek (14 February 2009); Basque (15 July 2009); Cebuano (2 September 2009)
30,000 Macedonian (30 April 2009); Georgian (24 May 2009); Latin (31 July 2009); Breton (25 October 2009)
20,000 Bishnupriya Manipuri (19 August 2007); Bosnian (30 August 2007); Luxembourgish (2 February 2008); Icelandic (15 February 2008); Albanian (19 April 2008); Marathi (22 September 2008); Azeri (23 October 2008); Tagalog (1 November 2008); Serbo-Croatian (4 November 2008); Welsh (20 November 2008); Piedmontese (17 January 2009); Latvian (13 February 2009); Belarusian (22 June 2009); Bengali (28 June 2009); Javanese (14 July 2009); Occitan (5 November 2009); Tamil (23 November 2009)
15,000 Ido (12 April 2007); Old Belarusian (2 January 2009); Aragonese (? June 2009); Sicilian (19 October 2000); Low Saxon (4 November 2009); Swahili (10 December 2009)
10,000 Neapolitan (20 June 2006); Sundanese (13 April 2007); Kurdish (19 September 2007); Asturian (20 November 2007); Walloon (20 March 2008); Afrikaans (16 June 2008); Western Frisian (21 December 2008); Cantonese (26 January 2009); Quechua (14 March 2009); Urdu (21 March 2009); Chuvash (6 April 2009); Samogitian (8 April 2009); Malayalam (1 June 2009); Waray-Waray / Samar-Leyte Visayan (14 July 2009); Gujarati (9 October 2009); Ripuarian (5 November 2009)
5,000 Uzbek (20 August 2006); Corsican (22 December 2006); Tajik (30 January 2007); Irish (7 May 2007); Venetian (3 July 2007); Tarantino (2 August 2007); Maori (10 September 2007); Kannada (27 December 2007); Scottish Gaelic (12 March 2008); Kapampangan (1 April 2008); Yiddish (8 May 2008); Upper Sorbian (23 August 2008); Nahuatl (7 September 2008); Lombard (2 February 2009); Aromanian (27 April 2009); Min Nan (30 April 2009); Gilaki (30 April 2009); Alemannic (8 May 2009); Kazakh (27 June 2009); Armenian (30 September 2009); Limburgish (4 October 2009); Sakha (10 October 2009); Interlingua (29 November 2009)
2,000 Tatar (5 November 2004); Ilokano (15 September 2006); Faroese (7 October 2006);Norman (14 November 2006); Amharic (22 December 2006); Dutch Low Saxon (11 January 2007); Sanskrit (13 February 2007); Friulian (22 April 2007); Bihari (29 April 2007); Novial (19 May 2007); Banyumasan (7 May 2007); Northern Sami (15 May 2007); Pali (8 June 2007); Pangasinan (8 July 2007); Scots (29 August 2007); West Flemish (27 August 2007); Ligurian (2 November 2007); Nepali (14 November 2007); Divehi (28 December 2007); Yoruba (3 January 2008); Romansh (29 January 2008); Zazaki (6 February 2008); Wu (17 February 2008); Ossetian / Ossetic (25 February 2008); Classical Chinese (26 April 2008); Arpitan / Franco-Provençal (2 May 2008); Maltese (4 May 2008);Bavarian (20 September 2008); Manx (17 November 2008); Khmer (27 November 2008); Võro (30 December 2008); Mongolian (4 February 2009); Gan (7 February 2009); Egyptian Arabic (14 March 2009); Turkmen (19 April 2009); Kashubian (4 June 2009); Uyghur (17 June 2009); Turkmen (22 June 2009); Central Bicolano (28 June 2009); Ladino / Judeo-Spanish (3 July 2009); Wester Panjabi (20 August 2009); Sinhalese (4 October 2009); Burmese (24 November 2009); Mazandarani (4 October 2009); Sardinian (5 December 2009)
1,000 Cornish (22 May 2006); Pennsylvania German (16 October 2006); Tongan (25 April 2007); Pashto (5 August 2007); Lingala (1 December 2007); Anglo-Saxon / Old English (29 December 2007); Hawaiian (9 February 2008); Interlingue (31 May 2008); Guarani (7 September 2008); Silesian (15 November 2008); Komi (15 December 2008); Malagasy (16 April 2009); Punjabi (20 April 2009); Turkmen (12 May 2009); Fiji Hindi (26 May 2009); Saterland Frisian (7 June 2009); Erzya (16 July 2009); Hakka (17 August 2009); Lojban (26 August 2009); Wolof (27 August 2009); Tibetan (15 September 2009); Crimean Tatar (20 October 2009); Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (21 October 2009); Navajo (17 November 2009); Acehnese (19 December 2009); Extremaduran (23 December 2009); Meadow Mari (24 December 2009)
500 Oriya (? August 2007); Tok Pisin (6 November 2007); Emilian-Romagnol (28 November 2007); Tahitian (24 December 2007); Zealandic (30 January 2008); Igbo (5 February 2008); Aymara (23 February 2008); Kongo (1 March 2008); Zamboanga Chavacano (17 March 2008); Kyrgyz (17 April 2008); Sranan (23 August 2008); Papiamentu (4 October 2008); Kabyle (? March 2009); Somali (16 April 2009); Lao (1 August 2009); Udmurt (10 September 2009); Sorani (6 November 2009); Bashkir (2 December 2009)
200 Kashmiri (4 October 2004); Nauruan (17 June 2005); Moldovan (7 August 2005); Tetum (15 May 2006); Romani (6 June 2006); Inuktitut (4 February 2007); Old Church Slavonic (? April 2007); Sindhi (? September 2007); Gothic (22 November 2007); Cherokee (20 December 2007); Chechen (19 February 2008); Lower Sorbian (29 April 2008); Karakalpak (10 June 2008); Min Dong (16 June 2008); Bambara (27 June 2008); Samoan (23 August 2008); Moksha (23 August 2008); Oromo (4 September 2008); Ewe (19 September 2008); Pontic (24 May 2009); Greenlandic (? July 2009); Norfolk (1 August 2009); Assamese (20 October 2009); Avar (20 October 2009); Abkhazian (27 October 2009); Mirandese (30 October 2009); Kalmyk (30 October 2009)
100 Cree (11 November 2006); Tigrinya (26 April 2007); Zulu (30 August 2007); Venda (7 December 2007); Xhosa (23 February 2008); Swati (6 March 2008); Bislama (29 April 2008); Chamorro (16 May 2008); Dzongkha (4 July 2008); Tsonga (23 August 2008); Tswana (23 August 2008); Hausa (? February 2009); Zhuang (30 October 2009); Buryat (Russia) (30 October 2009); Buginese (30 October 2009); Kikuyu (17 November 2009)

[edit] Wiktionaries

Statistics of many languages are outdated.

Wiktionaries by number of articles
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
1,500,000 French (28 September 2009), English (27 November 2009)
1,000,000
900,000
800,000
700,000
600,000
500,000
400,000 Lithuanian (20 December 2009)
300,000
200,000 Vietnamese (14 October 2006); Turkish; Russian (? 2009)
150,000 Greek (September 2007);Chinese (?);
100,000 Tamil (March 2008); Finnish (November 2008); Hungarian (February 2009); Polish (???); Italian (May 2009)
90,000 German (7 May 2009)
80,000
70,000
60,000 Korean (5 March 2009)
50,000 Swedish (31 December 2007); Arabic (31 December 2007); Portuguese (27 September 2008)
40,000 Kurdish (February ? 2008); Korean (March 2008); Dutch (November 14, 2008); Spanish (2009)
30,000 Indonesian (27 May 2007); Telugu (September 2007); Japanese (22 April 2008); Romanian; Estonian
20,000 Bulgarian (28 April 2005); Volapük (July 2007); Galician (29 June 2008); Romanian (21 September 2008); Norwegian (7 April 2009); Ukrainian (May 23, 2009); Catalan (10 June 2009)
15,000 Limburgish (8 February 2008); Romanian (14 July 2008); Serbian (?); Persian (?); Icelandic (?)
10,000 Afrikaans (January 2008); Sicilian (April 2008), Simple English (7 August 2009); Czech (27 August 2009)
5,000 Slovenian (7 February 2006); Armenian (13 November 2006); Min Nan (29 April 2007); Latin (9 September 2004); Danish (??)
2,000 Hebrew (18 February 2006); Kannada (17 July 2009); Breton (4 April 2007); Urdu (? ? 2007); Swahili (? ? 2007); Albanian; (? ? 2007); Ukrainian (? ? 2007); Anglo-Saxon (? ? 2007); West Frisian (? September 2007); Croatian (? September 2007); Asturian (26 Oct 2007); Malayalam (27 April 2008); Kannada (10 April 2009); Türkmençe (22 June 2009)
1,000 Occitan (24 December 2007); Hindi (20 February 2005); Corsican (15 May 2005); Slovak (22 April 2006); Kazakh (? ? 2007); Southern Sotho (? ? 2007); Malay (5 April 2008); Irish Gaelic (June 2008); Türkmençe (12 May 2009)
500 Low Saxon (11 March 2006); Kashubian (11 July 2006); Limburgish (10 October 2007); Thai (?? 2007)
100 Esperanto (6 July 2004); Gujarati (28 November 2004); Interlingua (24 February 2005); Bosnian (5 May 2005); Interlingue (12 June 2005); Yiddish (8 November 2005); Welsh (18 February 2006); Thai (13 March 2006); Sindhi (18 March 2006); Macedonian (26 April 2006); Marathi (27 June 2006); Quechua (June 2006); Kirghiz (July 2006); Amharic (26 July 2006); Aragonese (5 November 2006)

[edit] Wikiquotes

Wikiquotes by number of pages
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
15,000 English (21 March 2008)
10,000 French (?? ?? 2009)
5,000 German (9 March 2006); Polish (12 June 2007); Italian (19 August 2007); Portuguese (? ? 2008)
2,000 Bulgarian (23 September 2005); Russian (7 March 2006); Slovak (17 May 2006); Bosnian (15 June 2006); Slovenian (3 September 2006); Spanish (3 July 2007)
1,000 Turkish (28 July 2006); Hebrew (11 March 2007); Chinese (26 May 2007); Czech (24 May 2008); Greek (20 August 2009); Hungarian (9 September 2009); Ukrainian (29 Octover 2009)
500 Indonesian (23 December 2005); Japanese (5 May 2006); Swedish (22 October 2006); Lithuanian (8 January 2007); Norwegian (bokmål) (January 2007); Hungarian (27 March 2007); Dutch (1 October 2007); Persian (13 January 2008); Simple English (29 August 2009);
100 Finnish (14 August 2005); Esperanto (28 August 2005); Arabic (15 September 2005); Galician (12 January 2006); Greek (26 January 2006); Kurdish (14 February 2006); Vietnamese (3 March 2007); Serbian (24 April 2007); Latin (9 July 2007); Afrikaans (10 July 2007); Norwegian (nynorsk) (November 2007); Albanian (16 January 2008)

[edit] Wikibooks

Wikibooks by number of book modules
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
30,000 English (August 2008)
20,000
15,000 German (December 6th 2009)
10,000
5,000 Portuguese (? July 2007); French (6 January 2008)
2,000 Spanish (December 2006); Italian (6 January 2007); Hungarian (27 January 2006); Japanese (April 2007); Polish (August 2007); Dutch (October 2007); Hebrew (March 2008)
1,000 Albanian (May 2007); Finnish (July 2007); Croatia (6 September 2008); Russian (January 2009); Czech (31st March 2007)
500 Swedish (31 March 2006); Macedonian (27 May 2006); Danish (December 2006); Chinese (23 March 2007); Persian (May 2007); Vietnamese (June 2007); Turkish (August 2007)
100 Korean (6 June 2005); Esperanto (21 July 2005); Anglo-Saxon (27 October 2005); Slovak (2 November 2005); Arabic (14 November 2005); Tamil (? December 2005); Galician (? December 2005); Catalan (2 February 2006); Bulgarian (3 March 2006); Icelandic; Indonesian; Thai(? June 2006); Norwegian (10 July 2006); Icelandic (? December 2006); Lithuanian (? December 2006); Ukrainian (? November 2006); Serbian (? November 2006); Georgian (21 January 2007); Alemannic German (16 February 2007);

[edit] Wikinews

Wikinews by number of pages
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
20,000 Serbian (20 November 2009)
15,000 English (13 July 2009)
10,000 Polish (26 June 2009)
5,000 German (? July 2006); Italian (29 January 2008); French (1 April 2009); Portuguese (14 July 2009); Spanish (3 December 2009)
2,000 Swedish (27 March 2006); Spanish (3 August 2007); Japanese (? January 2008); Chinese (25 June 2008)
1,000 Dutch (31 March 2008); Russian (? May 2008); Hebrew (? ? 2009)
500 Sindhi (? November 2006); Finnish (? May 2008); Czech (2 December 2008); Ukrainian (21 November 2009)
100 Romanian (27 April 2005); Catalan (9 November 2006); Norwegian (? December 2006); Bosnian (? May 2007); Arabic (? July 2007); Thai (? October 2007); Hungarian (? ? 2008)

[edit] Wikisources

Wikisource by number of pages
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them) Updated
100,000 English (??) 26 June 2008
80,000 Portuguese (??) 22 May 2009
50,000 French (??); Chinese (? 2009); Russian (26 September 2009) 1 October 2009
40,000 Spanish (8 November 2008); Russian (10 September 2009) 1 October 2009
30,000 Hebrew (26 November 2009); German (?? 2009); Russian (28 July 2009) 1 October 2009
20,000 Russian (21 November 2008); Italian (30 December 2008) ; Hebrew (??); 1 October 2009
15,000 Russian (??); Arabic (??); Persian (??) 22 May 2009
10,000 Russian (22 September 2007); Thai (??); Polish (??); Hungarian (??); Czech (4 September 2009) 1 October 2009
5,000 Russian (??); Romanian (17 February 2007); Telugu (??); Croatian (? December 2006); Finnish (??) 22 May 2009
4,000 Russian (??); Turkish (??) 22 May 2009
3,000 Russian (??); Dutch (??) ; Swedish (??); Serbian (2 October 2009) 22 May 2009
2,000 Russian (??); Serbian (? ? 2007); Latin (??); Ukrainian (8 March 2009); Slovenian (??); Japanese (??); Limburgian (??); Greek (22 April 2009) 22 May 2009
1,000 Russian (??); Malayalam (??); Icelandic (??); Bosnian (? December 2006); Catalan (??); Korean (??)l Bengali (September 25, 2008); Indonesian (??); Vietnamese (25 September 2009) 25 September 2009
500 Russian (??); Armenian (??); Norwegian (??); Danish (??) ; Macedonian (??) ; Yiddish (??) ; Azeri (??) 22 May 2009
100 Russian (??); Tamil (??); Kannada (? December 2006); Estonian (??); Bulgarian (??); Slovak (??); Welsh (??); Galician (4 November 2007); Lithuanian (??), Alemannic (13. October 2009) 13 October 2009
1 to 100 Min-nan (??); Haitian (??); Faroese (??); Anglo-Saxon (??) 26 June 2008

[edit] Wikispecies

Wikispecies (multilingual) by number of content pages
Milestone Project (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
200,000 Wikispecies (10 October 2009)
150,000 Wikispecies (8 September 2008) [1]
100,000 Wikispecies (20 May 2007) [2]
75,000 Wikispecies (10 October 2006) [3]

[edit] Wikiversities

Wikiversities by number of pages
Milestone Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
5,000 English (? September 2007); French (? March 2009);
2,000 German (16 September 2008)
1,000 Czech (5 April 2009)
500 Italiano (? February 2008); Spanish (? March 2008)
100 Greek (? April 2008); Português (? ? 2008)

[edit] Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons (multilingual) by number of media files
Milestone Project (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
5,000,000 (2 September 2009)
4,000,000 press release (4 March 2009)
3,500,000 (19 November 2008)
3,000,000 press release (16 July 2008)
2,500,000 (25 February 2008)
2,000,000 press release (8 October 2007)
1,750,000 (11 August 2007)
1,700,000 (late July 2007)
1,600,000 (1 July 2007)
1,500,000 news item (25 May 2007)
1,000,000 press release (30 November 2006)
600,000 news item (15 May 2006)
500,000 (25 March 2006)
100,000 press release (24 May 2005)
1,000 news item (5 October 2004)
0 news item (7 September 2004)

[edit] See also

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