Milestones
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The following table is a place to record milestones of any sort. Historically " number of articles" has been a popular measure.
The intention is to store all data here, not just the most recent milestone (as at en:Wikipedia:Announcements).
| Project | Date | Milestone | Comment |
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| all | 2001-03 | 100,000 words | |
| 2001-08 | 1 million words | ||
| 2002-05 | 10 million words | ||
| 2003-12 | 100 million words | ||
| 2005-12 | 1 billion words | ||
| 2004-02-15 | 500,000 articles | 15th was press release day. Actually 500,000th article was a little earlier | |
| 2004-09-20 | 1,000,000 articles | Just a little over 7 months to double the size of the project. | |
| 2006-08 | 1,500,000 articles | ||
| 2006-12 | 1,600,000 articles | ||
| als | 2005-10-13 | 1,000 articles | |
| da | 2006-09-30 | 50,000 articles | |
| de | 2003-01-24 | 10,000 articles | |
| 2003-07-27 | 25,000 articles | ||
| 2004-02-08 | 50,000 articles | ||
| 2004-06-13 | 100,000 articles | ||
| 2005-02-15 | 200,000 articles | ||
| 2006-11-23 | 500,000 articles | ||
| en | 2001-08 | 1 million words | |
| 2002-07 | 10 million words | ||
| 2003-10 | 50 million words | ||
| 2001-01 | 100 articles | ||
| 2001-04 | 1,000 articles | ||
| 2001-10 | 10,000 articles | ||
| 2003-01-21 | 100,000 articles | The 100,000th was Hastings, New Zealand written by Lisiate at 03:36. The article describes the user's old home town. This pushed the counter up to the 100,000 mark, although subsequent deletions of older articles have affected the article count. Which is the 100,000th article still extant is liable to change repeatedly as old articles are deleted, and is therefore probably not very interesting, even as a piece of trivia. Although, having said that, at the time of writing this, it is Machine vision by Rethunk, started at 05:30 the same morning! (That is, assuming that none of the subsequent new pages are non-articles, which may not actually be true.) | |
| 2004-02-02 | 200,000 articles | The 200,000th article on the English Wikipedia was Neil Warnock created by SimonMayer. Very soon after, Wikipedia was slashdotted. A bit later that month 9 new servers were installed following the Christmas 2003 funding drive. So the second 100,000 articles took one year ten days, down from two years six days for the first 100,000. | |
| 2004-04-20 | 250,000 articles | The English Wikipedia passes 250,000 articles at approximately 00:28 UTC. Charles Hamilton Houston is the 250,000th article. It is 17 days since the 240,000-article milestone was reached. It is just 78 days since we made the 200,000th article. For comparison:
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| 2004-07-07 | 300,000 articles | Rene Gagnon is the 300,000th article, created by Raul654. Wikipedia is again slashdotted soon afterward.
77 days since the 250,000th article. 155 days since the 200,000th article. |
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| 2004-09-17 | 350,000 articles | Bill Boyd. 71 days since the 300,000th article. | |
| 2004-11-20 | 400,000 articles | Approx. 59 days since the 350,000th article was reached. Approx. 130 days since the 300,000th article. | |
| 2005-01-15 | 450,000 articles | Approx. 56 days since the 400,000th article was reached. | |
| 2005-03-17 | 500,000 articles | 117 days since the 400,000th article was reached. 61 days since the 450,000th article was reached. | |
| 2005-06-18 | 600,000 articles | Approx. 93 days since the 500,000th article was reached. | |
| 2005-08-25 | 700,000 articles | Approx. 68 days since the 600,000th article was reached. | |
| 2005-11-01 | 800,000 articles | Approx. 68 days since the 700,000th article was reached. Just under 12 months to double the number of articles compared to just under 10 months to double from 200,000 to 400,000. The growth from 700,000 to 800,000 still represents an approximately 6% monthly growth rate. | |
| 2006-01-04 | 900,000 articles | Approx. 64 days since the 800,000th article was reached. | |
| 2006-03-01 | 1,000,000 articles | Approx. 58 days since the 900,000th article was reached. | |
| 2006-04-26 | 1,100,000 articles | Approx. 56 days since the 1,000,000th article was reached. Approximately a 5.4% monthly growth rate. | |
| 2006-06-19 | 1,200,000 articles | Approx. 54 days since the 1,100,000th article was reached. Approximately a 5.1% monthly growth rate. | |
| 2006-08-06 | 1,300,000 articles | Approx. 48 days since the 1,200,000th article was reached. | |
| 2006-09-24 | 1,400,000 articles | Approx. 49 days since the 1,300,000th article was reached. | |
| 2006-11-24 | 1,500,000 articles | Approx. 61 days since the 1,400,000th article was reached. | |
| 2007-01-24 | 1,600,000 articles | Approx. 61 days since the 1,500,000th article was reached. | |
| 2007-03-22 | 1,700,000 articles | Approx. 57 days since the 1,600,000th article was reached. | |
| 2007-05-25 | 1,800,000 articles | Approx. 63 days since the 1,700,000th article was reached. | |
| 2007-07-22 | 1,900,000 articles | Approx. 59 days since the 1,800,000th article was reached. | |
| 2007-09-09 | 2,000,000 articles | Approx. 49 days since the 1,900,000th article was reached. | |
| 2007-11-23 | 2,100,000 articles | Approx. 75 days since the 2,000,000th article was reached. | |
| 2008-01-30 | 2,200,000 articles | Approx. 68 days since the 2,100,000th article was reached. | |
| 2008-03-23 | 2,300,000 articles | Approx. 53 days since the 2,200,000th article was reached. | |
| es | 2005-05-30 | 50,000 articles | |
| 2006-03-08 | 100,000 articles | ||
| 2006-09-06 | 150,000 articles | ||
| 2007-02-10 | 200,000 articles | ||
| fr | 2005-04-20 | 100,000 articles | |
| 2005-12-04 | 200,000 articles | ||
| 2007-05-28 | 500,000 articles | Reached with [1] | |
| 2007-12-28 | 600,000 articles | ||
| it | 2005-09-09 | 100,000 articles | |
| 2006-09-27 | 200,000 articles | ||
| la | 2003-05-24 | 1,000 articles | |
| 2004-03-22 | 2,000 articles | ||
| 2004-12-27 | 10,000 paginae | ||
| lt | 2004-10-14 | 1,000 articles | |
| 2005-12-14 | 10,000 articles | ||
| 2006-05-23 | 20,000 articles | ||
| 2006-09-04 | 30,000 articles | ||
| 2007-02-28 | 40,000 articles | ||
| nds | 2005-01-31 | 1,000 articles | article was SC 07 Bad Neuenahr |
| 2007-03-03 | 5,000 articles | article was Sex | |
| 2007-07-02 | 10,000 articles | article was Erskine Caldwell | |
| nl | 2006-12-26 | 250,000 articles | |
| pl | 2005-09-16 | 100,000 articles | |
| 2006-01-26 | 200,000 articles | ||
| 2006-07-26 | 300,000 articles | ||
| ro | 2007-01-05 | 50,000 articles | |
| ru | 2004-08-03 | 5,000 articles | |
| 2005-12-23 | 50,000 articles | ||
| 2006-08-16 | 100,000 articles | ||
| simple | 2006-07-26 | 10,000 articles | |
| sv | 2006-12-23 | 200,000 articles | The 200,000th article was Ferdinand Buisson. |
| th | 2006-03-14 | 10,000 articles | |
| uk | 2004-04-04 | 1,000 articles | |
| 2004-11-30 | 10,000 articles | ||
| 2006-11-12 | 40,000 articles | ||
| zh | 2006-11-12 | 100,000 articles |
