Wikimedia News/2009

2008

Wikimedia News

2010

Progress in 2009

• Wikipedia ends the year with 14,678,281 articles. One year ago there were 12,021,330 articles. There has been an increase of 2,656,951 articles, which means 18.10% more articles.
• Now there are 2 Wikipedias with more than 1,000,000 articles (one year ago, there was 1), 29 with more than 100,000 (24), 90 with more than 10,000 (81), 184 with more than 1,000 (163), and 245 with more than 100 (233).
• Wiktionary ends the year with 6,854,158 articles. There are 2 Wiktionaries with more than 1,000,000 entries, 15 with more than 100,000, 49 with more than 10,000, 83 with more than 1,000, and 124 with more than 100.

December 2009

30

• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 90,000 articles.
• The Basque Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

28

• The Tatar Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles with Гарәп Википедиясе.

27

The German Wikipedia celebrates "the first million" articles.

• The German Wikipedia arrives at its millionth article, on American horticulturist Ernie Wasson.
• The Kikuyu Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.

26

• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 16,000 entries.
• The Punjabi Shayari has reached 20000 Articals.

25

• The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.

24

• The Picard Wikipedia opens its doors.

23

• The Meadow Mari Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

22

• The Extremaduran Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

20

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 400,000 articles.

17

• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 3,000,000 edits.
• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Acehnese Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

16

• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 57,000 articles for the second time in 2009, after a mass deletion of stubs.

15

• The Estonian Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.

14

• The Estonian Wiktionary has reached 35,000 articles.

12

• The Ido Wikipedia reaches 18,000 articles, with Maro di Marmara.

6

• The German Wikibooks has reached 15,000 bookpages.

5

• The Quechua Wikipedia has reached 11,000 articles.
• The Sardinian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

3

• The Spanish Wikinews has reached 5,000 articles.

2

• The Bashkir Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

November 2009

29

• The Interlingua Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

27

• The English Wiktionary reaches 1,500,000 entries with the Latin verb ingeminō.

26

• The Hebrew Wikisource reaches 30,000 text units.

22

• The Tamil Wikipedia reaches 20,000 articles.

21

• The Ukrainian Wikinews has reached 500 news articles with Обрано першого президента Євросоюзу.

20

• The Serbian Wikinews have reached 20,000 news.

Serbian Wikipedia

• The Serbian Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles with Paklinska ostrva.

18

• The Acehnese Wikipedia reaches 500 articles.

17

• The Navajo Wikipedia reaches 1,000 articles.
• The Kikuyu Wikipedia reaches 100 articles.

15

• The Malay Wikipedia reaches 55,000 articles with Kaunti Kaifeng.

14

• The German Wikipedia has reached 980,000 articles
• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 70,000 entries.

13

• The Russian Wikiversity opens its doors.

9

• The Lojban Wikipedia has reached 49,000 edits.

6

• The Sorani Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

5

• The Occitan Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

October 2009

29

• The Ukrainian Wikiquote has reached 1,000 articles with Гарві Мілк.

25

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 300,000 articles.
• The Breton Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

21

• The Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

20

• The Crimean Tatar Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles with Varva.
• The Swedish Wikipedia has reached 333,333 articles (with Bizerte, or perhaps Hodeidah).

19

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries.

18

• The Croatian Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.

17

• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 2,500,000 edits.

13

• The Alemannic Wikisource has reached 100 articles with Z'Basel an mym Rhy.

12

• The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.

10

• Wikispecies has reached 200,000 articles with Zealachertus bildiri (an insect).
• The Sakha Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

8

• The Gujarati Wikipedia becomes the 91st edition to reach 10,000 articles. The 10,000th article was વાટલાવ, created by સતિષચંદ્ર about a locality in Godhra, Gujarat, India.
• Alemannic Wikiquote has reached 500 quotes.

5

• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles, becoming the 58th Wikipedia to do so.

4

• The Alemannic Wikisource has been created as a separate namespace on the Alemannic Wikipedia.

3

• The Sinhala Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Limburgish Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

2

• The Serbian Wikisource has reached 3,000 articles.
• The Serbian Wikinews has become the largest Wikinews version (by number of articles), ousting the English Wikinews from that spot. This is the second time that a non-English Wikimedia project has surpassed the English version, the first time being the French Wiktionary. The Serbian Wikinews' recent growth has been driven by automated imports of Beta News Agency article summaries and Weather Underground forecasts. More»

September 2009

29

• The Bulgarian Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Serbian Wikinews has reached 15,000 news.
• The Armenian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

26

• The Russian Wikisource has reached 50,000 texts.
• The French Wiktionary has reached 1,500,000 entries with the creation of écoredevance.

25

• The Vietnamese Wikisource has reached 1,000 texts.
• The Navajo Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

24

• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

21

• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles with Solsona's Carnaval article.

18

• The Zamboanga Chavacano Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

15

• The Tibetan Wikipedia reaches 1,000 articles as prolific editor Beaukarpo starts ཀྲུང་གོའི་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།, a stub about autonomous regions of the People's Republic of China.
• The Hindi Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

13

• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 56,000 articles.
• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 12,000 entries.

12

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.

11

• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

10

• The Russian Wikisource has reached 40,000 texts.

9

• The Hungarian Wikiquote has reached 1,000 articles.

7

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.

6

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 6,000 entries.

4

Czech Wikisource

• The Thai Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 11,000 entries.
• The Czech Wikisource („Wikizdroje“) has reached 10,000 pages with the 5th book of a Czech translation of Homer's Iliad.

3

• The Alemannic Wikinews has been created as separate namespace on the Alemannic Wikipedia.

2

• The Wikimedia Commons has reached 5,000,000 files.

August 2009

30

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 5,000 articles.

29

• The Simple English Wikiquote has reached 500 articles.

28

• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles.

27

Czech Wiktionary

• The Czech Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
• The Wolof Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

26

• 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).

24

• The Russian Wikisource has reached 35,000 articles.

23

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 4,000 articles.

20

• The Greek Wikiquote (or "Βικιφθέγματα") has reached 1,000 articles

17

• The English Wikipedia has reached 3,000,000 articles with Beate Eriksen, a Norwegian film actress and director.

14

• The Ripuarian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles (likely sometime before this day).

13

• The Sorani Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Acehnese Wikipedia, and Turkish Wikinews are created.

Portuguese Wikipedia 500,000 articles

12

• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 500,000 articles.

11

• The Turkmen Wiktionary has reached 4,000 articles.

8

• The Serbian Wikinews has reached 10,000 news articles.

7

• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 10,000 articles.

5

• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 500,000 articles.
• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 45,000 articles with Lapangan Terbang Leognan-Saucats.

3

• The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

July 2009

31

• The Latin Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles with the creation of Magninovilla.

23

• The Galician Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

16

• The Erzya Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

15

• The Turkmen Wiktionary has reached 3,000 articles.

14

• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikinews has reached 5,000 articles

13

• The Javanese Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

10

• The Kannada Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.

9

• The Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Meadow Mari Wikipedia is created with over 500 articles from the Incubator testbed.

8

• The Japanese Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles.

7

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

3

• 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 from a list of articles by quality .

June 2009

28

• The Russian Wikisource has reached 30,000 texts.
• The Bengali Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.
• The Central Bicolano Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

27

• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 500,000 pages.
• The Kazakh Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

26

• The Polish Wikinews has reached 10,000 articles and 100,000 edits.

22

• The Turkmen Wiktionary has reached 2,000 articles.

21

• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 20,000 registered users.

19

• The Occitan Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.

17

• The Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography) Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles with page Казімер Нарбут.
• The Uyghur Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

Russian Wikipedia 400,000 articles

16

• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 400,000 articles with Страсти по Матфею (Бах). Congratulations!

10

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 200,000 articles.

9

• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

8

• The Aragonese Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles with page Sulebazión de Chaca.

5

• The Saterland Frisian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

Korean Wikipedia 100,000

4

• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles with 액세스권|.
• The Kashubian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

The localized logo for ml Wikipedia

1

• The Malayalam Wikipedia has surpassed 10,000 articles with page depth exceeding 150. The 10,000th article in the wiki is അജയ് മാക്കന്‍.

May 2009

30

Logo of Ukrainian Wikipedia with 150,000 articles

• The Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles with Висиджування яєць (avian incubation).

25

• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles as م ض creates the article المعهد العالي للفنون والحرف بقابس, about the Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts at the University of Gabès.

24

• The Italian Wiktionary has surpassed 100,000 entries.
• The English Wiktionary has reached 1,000 Galician noun entries with científico.
• The Mazandarani Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Pontic Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

23

Logo of Ukrainian Wiktionary with 20,000 articles

• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 20,000 articles with вабливість.
• The Fiji Hindi Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

21

• The Wikimedia Community and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees have approved the licensing of the content of all Wikimedia projects under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license, effective June 15, 2009.

18

• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 200,000 registered users.

14

• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 75,000 articles with Замак Балморал (Balmoral Castle).

13

The localized logo for Ido Wiktionary

• The Ido Wiktionary now has a localized logo.

12

• The Turkmen Wiktionary has reached 1,000 articles.

8

• The Alemannic Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles with Hunspach by Brian67, and also 15,000 total wikipages.

6

• The French Wikipedia has reached 800,000 articles.
• The Hebrew Wikisource has reached 10,000 articles with רמב"ם הלכות מלוה ולוה יז by Ori229.

4

• The German Wikipedia has reached 900,000 articles.

April 2009

30

• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles.
• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 15,000 articles with Валява.
• The Gilaki Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Min Nan Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

28

• Meta has reached 250,000 registered users.

26

• The Gujarati Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Aromanian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

21

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 150,000 articles.

20

• The Arabic Wikinews has reached 1,000 registered users.
• The Punjabi Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

Chinese Wikipedia 250,000

19

• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 250,000 articles.
• The Turkmen Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

17

• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 125,000 articles.
• The Uyghur Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

16

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles as Quangbao writes an article on the song "…Baby One More Time".

15

Czech Wikisource – Wikizdroje

• The Czech Wikisource project name has been localized to Wikizdroje.
• The Nepal Bhasa Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Malagasy Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

13

• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 250,000 total wikipages.

12

• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles.

9

• The Burmese Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

Czech Wikiversity

7

• The Chuvash Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Finnish Wikiversity opens its doors, resolving Bug 16977.
• The Samogitian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

5

• The Czech Wikiversity has reached 1,000 articles.

March 2009

Czech Wikibooks

31

• The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.
• The Czech Wikibooks has reached 1,000 articles.

30

• The Russian Wikisource has reached 25,000 articles.

29

• The Urdu Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

28

• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries with ævistarf (lifeswork).

21

• The Limburgish Wikisource has reached 2,000 articles.

16

• The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has reached 500,000 wiki pages (including articles, talk pages, category pages, redirects, image descriptions, templates, etc.)

14

• The Egyptian Arabic (Masry) Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

13

• The Quechua Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

8

• The Ukrainian Wikisource has reached 2,000 articles with Коточку, де ти був?.

6

• Wikispecies has reached 50,000 registered users.

5

• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.
• The Pontic Greek Wikipedia is created, resolving Bug 16955.

4

• The Wikimedia Commons has reached 4,000,000 files.

February 2009

25

• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 10,000 articles with безвиглядний.
• The Limburgish Wikisource has reached 1,000 articles.

23

• The Chinese Wikipedia has moved its main page from 首页 to Wikipedia:首页.
• The Swahili Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

21

• The Indonesian language Wikipedia reached 100,000 articles. The 100,000th article is Luck By Chance, by an anonymous user, about an Indian film.
• The Estonian language Wikipedia reached 60,000 articles. The 60,000th article is David Hieronymus Grindel.

17

• The Thai Wikipedia has 60,000 registered users with 622 active users.
• The Hungarian Wiktionary has reached 100,000 articles with تهیر.

13

• The Latvian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

7

• The Gan Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

5

• The Sakha Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

4

• The Catalan Wiktionary has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia gains its 100,000^th registered user, Xuancanh. Of these users, 835 are currently considered "active".
• The Mongolian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

2

• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 9,000 articles.
• The Lombard Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles again after having fallen from a high of over 100,000 articles in November 2007 to below 3,000 in May 2008.
• The Gilaki Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

1

• The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has reached 10,000 articles with an article about a game called Diäsch.

January 2009

31

• The Egyptian Arabic(Masry) Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

27

• The Slovenian Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.

26

• The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

22

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 100,000 articles.
• The Egyptian Arabic (Masry) Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.

19

• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 22,000 articles.
• The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has reached 2,000 users with the automatically created global user Kaio-ken x10.

17

• The Piedmontese Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

14

• The Sinhalese Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

6

• The Arabic Wiktionary has reached 2,000 registered users.
• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

5

• Wikimedia Commons has reached 500,000 registered users.
• The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles with Crni biseri (Black pearls).
• The Sakha Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

2

• The Old Belarusian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

1

• The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has reached 1,000,000 edits (not counting deleted ones) in the first hours of the new year. It added Prositt Neujohr! about a poem traditionally recited New Year's morning before breakfast, while presenting a pretzel-shaped sweet bread to the family.

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