Graph showing article growth of the Dutch Wikipedia since June 2001.
The Dutch Wikipedia (Dutch: Nederlandstalige Wikipedia) is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. As of April 2012, the Dutch Wikipedia is the fourth-largest Wikipedia edition, with over 1,039,000 articles. It was the fourth Wikipedia edition to exceed 1 million articles, after the English, German and French editions.
History
The Dutch Wikipedia was started on 19 June 2001, and reached 100,000 articles on 14 October 2005. It briefly surpassed the Polish Wikipedia as the sixth-largest edition of Wikipedia, but then fell back to the eighth position. On 1 March 2006 it overtook the Swedish and Italian editions in one day to rise back to the sixth position. The edition's 500,000th article was created on November 30, 2008.[1] In a 2006 Multiscope research study, the Dutch Wikipedia was rated the third-best Dutch-language website, after Google and Gmail, with a score of 8.1.[2]
The Dutch language Wikipedia has the largest ratio of Wikipedia pages per native speaker of all of the top 10 largest Wikipedia editions. Its rate of daily article creations spiked in March 2006, rapidly growing to an average of 1,000 a day in early May 2006. After this number was reached, growth dropped to an average of only about 250 a day, comparable to the averages around December 2005. Since then, there have been more article-creation surges, one of the largest peaking at 2,000 new articles per day in September 2007, but the growth rate has always returned to the lowest average of around 250. In October 2011, several bots created 80,000 articles (then equivalent to 10% of the entire edition's article count) in only 11 days.[3][4] The Dutch Wikipedia's one-millonth article was created in December 2011, after another surge of bot activity saw 100,000 added articles in only 10 days.
Article growth
Date |
Number of articles[5] |
Articles per day |
19-06-2001 |
1 |
1 |
03-08-2003 |
10,000 |
13 |
07-02-2004 |
20,000 |
53 |
27-06-2004 |
30,000 |
71 |
08-11-2004 |
40,000 |
75 |
27-01-2005 |
50,000 |
125 |
23-03-2005 |
60,000 |
182 |
16-05-2005 |
70,000 |
185 |
17-07-2005 |
80,000 |
161 |
07-09-2005 |
90,000 |
192 |
14-10-2005 |
100,000 |
270 |
30-11-2005 |
110,000 |
213 |
05-01-2006 |
120,000 |
278 |
06-02-2006 |
130,000 |
313 |
01-03-2006 |
140,000 |
435 |
18-03-2006 |
150,000 |
588 |
02-04-2006 |
160,000 |
667 |
13-04-2006 |
170,000 |
909 |
28-04-2006 |
180,000 |
667 |
08-05-2006 |
190,000 |
1,000 |
24-05-2006 |
200,000 |
625 |
04-07-2006 |
210,000 |
244 |
16-08-2006 |
220,000 |
233 |
28-09-2006 |
230,000 |
233 |
16-11-2006 |
240,000 |
204 |
26-12-2006 |
250,000 |
250 |
01-01-2007 |
260,000 |
1,667 |
05-02-2007 |
270,000 |
286 |
04-03-2007 |
280,000 |
370 |
18-04-2007 |
290,000 |
222 |
28-05-2007 |
300,000 |
250 |
20-06-2007 |
310,000 |
434 |
22-07-2007 |
320,000 |
313 |
27-08-2007 |
330,000 |
278 |
10-09-2007 |
340,000 |
714 |
15-09-2007 |
350,000 |
2,000 |
25-09-2007 |
360,000 |
1,000 |
11-10-2007 |
370,000 |
625 |
17-11-2007 |
380,000 |
270 |
25-12-2007 |
390,000 |
263 |
17-01-2008 |
400,000 |
435 |
18-02-2008 |
410,000 |
323 |
30-11-2008 |
500,000 |
315 |
30-07-2009 |
550,000 |
205 |
30-04-2010 |
600,000 |
182 |
07-11-2010 |
650,000 |
262 |
19-06-2011 |
700,000 |
222 |
18-09-2011 |
750,000 |
549 |
22-10-2011 |
800,000 |
1,471 |
31-10-2011 |
850,000 |
5,555 |
07-12-2011 |
900,000 |
1,351 |
17-12-2011 |
1,000,000 |
10,000 |
Bibliography
References
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