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Contents
- 1 Milestones
- 1.1 5 November 2015
- 1.2 4 November 2015
- 1.3 3 November 2015
- 1.4 2 November 2015
- 1.5 1 November 2015
- 1.6 31 October 2015
- 1.7 30 October 2015
- 1.8 29 October 2015
- 1.9 28 October 2015
- 1.10 27 October 2015
- 1.11 26 October 2015
- 1.12 25 October 2015
- 1.13 24 October 2015
- 1.14 23 October 2015
- 1.15 21 October 2015
- 1.16 20 October 2015
- 1.17 19 October 2015
- 1.18 18 October 2015
- 1.19 17 October 2015
- 1.20 16 October 2015
- 1.21 15 October 2015
- 1.22 14 October 2015
- 1.23 13 October 2015
- 1.24 12 October 2015
- 1.25 11 October 2015
- 1.26 10 October 2015
- 1.27 9 October 2015
- 1.28 8 October 2015
- 1.29 7 October 2015
- 1.30 6 October 2015
- 1.31 5 October 2015
- 1.32 4 October 2015
- 1.33 3 October 2015
- 1.34 2 October 2015
- 1.35 1 October 2015
- 1.36 30 September 2015
- 1.37 29 September 2015
- 1.38 28 September 2015
- 1.39 27 September 2015
- 1.40 26 September 2015
- 1.41 25 September 2015
- 1.42 24 September 2015
- 1.43 23 September 2015
- 1.44 22 September 2015
- 1.45 21 September 2015
- 1.46 20 September 2015
- 1.47 19 September 2015
- 1.48 18 September 2015
- 1.49 17 September 2015
- 1.50 16 September 2015
- 1.51 15 September 2015
- 1.52 14 September 2015
- 1.53 13 September 2015
- 1.54 12 September 2015
- 1.55 11 September 2015
- 1.56 10 September 2015
- 1.57 9 September 2015
- 1.58 8 September 2015
- 1.59 7 September 2015
- 1.60 6 September 2015
- 1.61 5 September 2015
- 1.62 4 September 2015
- 1.63 3 September 2015
- 1.64 2 September 2015
- 1.65 1 September 2015
- 1.66 31 August 2015
- 1.67 30 August 2015
- 1.68 29 August 2015
- 1.69 28 August 2015
- 1.70 27 August 2015
- 1.71 26 August 2015
- 1.72 21 August 2015
- 1.73 30 July 2015
- 1.74 16 July 2015
- 1.75 15 July 2015
- 1.76 24 June 2015
- 1.77 13 May 2015
- 1.78 7 April 2015
- 1.79 6 April 2015
- 1.80 1 April 2015
- 1.81 31 March 2015
- 1.82 16 February 2015
- 1.83 13 February 2015
- 1.84 24 January 2015
- 1.85 29 November 2014
- 1.86 24 October 2014
- 1.87 3 October 2014
- 1.88 17 September 2014
- 1.89 5 August 2014
- 1.90 27 July 2014
- 1.91 10 June 2014
- 1.92 8 June 2014
- 1.93 26 May 2014
- 1.94 23 May 2014
- 1.95 21 May 2014
- 1.96 5 May 2014
- 1.97 25 April 2014
- 1.98 14 April 2014
- 1.99 9 April 2014
- 1.100 7 April 2014
- 1.101 2 January 2014
- 1.102 1 January 2014
- 1.103 22 December 2013
- 1.104 21 December 2013
- 1.105 20 December 2013
- 1.106 16 December 2013
- 1.107 12 December 2013
- 1.108 10 December 2013
- 1.109 25 November 2013
- 1.110 23 November 2013
- 1.111 13 November 2013
- 1.112 25 October 2013
- 1.113 19 October 2013
- 1.114 18 October 2013
- 1.115 5 October 2013
- 1.116 20 September 2013
- 1.117 27 August 2013
- 1.118 25 August 2013
- 1.119 14 August 2013
- 1.120 23 July 2013
- 1.121 17 June 2013
- 1.122 15 June 2013
- 1.123 10 June 2013
- 1.124 28 May 2013
- 1.125 17 May 2013
- 1.126 9 May 2013
- 1.127 7 May 2013
- 1.128 5 May 2013
- 1.129 3 May 2013
- 1.130 1 May 2013
- 1.131 30 April 2013
- 1.132 28 April 2013
- 1.133 26 April 2013
- 1.134 16 April 2013
- 1.135 23 March 2013
- 1.136 14 March 2013
- 1.137 1 March 2013
- 1.138 27 January 2013
- 1.139 26 December 2012
- 1.140 19 December 2012
- 1.141 8 December 2012
- 1.142 7 December 2012
- 1.143 19 September 2012
- 1.144 12 September 2012
- 1.145 6 September 2012
- 1.146 4 September 2012
- 1.147 1 September 2012
- 1.148 27 August 2012
- 1.149 17 August 2012
- 2 Chart
- 3 See also
Milestones
5 November 2015
4 November 2015
3 November 2015
2 November 2015
1 November 2015
English Wikipedia hits 5,000,000th article, Persoonia terminalis.
31 October 2015
30 October 2015
29 October 2015
WikiProject Gastropods now covers 30,000 articles. JoJan (talk) 14:29, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
28 October 2015
WikiProject North America now covers 3000 or more articles in total.
27 October 2015
26 October 2015
25 October 2015
24 October 2015
23 October 2015
21 October 2015
20 October 2015
19 October 2015
18 October 2015
17 October 2015
16 October 2015
15 October 2015
14 October 2015
13 October 2015
WikiProject Islam now includes 50 or more good articles.
12 October 2015
WikiProject Lakes now includes 20 or more good articles.
11 October 2015
WikiProject North America now covers 2500 or more articles in total.
10 October 2015
9 October 2015
WikiProject North America now covers 1500 or more articles in total.
8 October 2015
7 October 2015
6 October 2015
5 October 2015
4 October 2015
3 October 2015
2 October 2015
1 October 2015
30 September 2015
29 September 2015
28 September 2015
27 September 2015
26 September 2015
25 September 2015
24 September 2015
23 September 2015
22 September 2015
21 September 2015
WikiProject Russia now includes 70 or more featured articles.
20 September 2015
19 September 2015
18 September 2015
17 September 2015
16 September 2015
15 September 2015
14 September 2015
13 September 2015
WikiProject Conservatism now covers 5500 or more articles in total.
12 September 2015
11 September 2015
10 September 2015
9 September 2015
8 September 2015
7 September 2015
6 September 2015
5 September 2015
4 September 2015
3 September 2015
2 September 2015
1 September 2015
31 August 2015
30 August 2015
29 August 2015
28 August 2015
27 August 2015
26 August 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 146 or more good articles.
21 August 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 20 or more featured articles.
30 July 2015
WikiProject North America now includes 5 or more good articles.
16 July 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 30 or more good articles.
15 July 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 25 or more featured list articles.
24 June 2015
WikiProject Films now includes 800 or more good articles.
13 May 2015
WikiProject North America now covers 1000 or more articles in total.
7 April 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 25 or more good articles.
6 April 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 20 or more featured list articles.
1 April 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 20 or more good articles.
31 March 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 125 or more good articles.
16 February 2015
WikiProject Oregon now includes 150 or more good articles.
13 February 2015
WikiProject Television now includes 2000 or more good articles.
24 January 2015
WikiProject Films now includes 700 or more good articles.
29 November 2014
WikiProject Films now includes 130 or more featured articles.
24 October 2014
Wikiproject Popular Culture now includes 15 or more good articles.
3 October 2014
WikiProject Atheism now includes 15 or more good articles.
17 September 2014
Wikiproject Popular Culture now includes 3 or more featured articles.
5 August 2014
WikiProject The Beatles now includes 100 or more good articles.
27 July 2014
WikiProject Films now includes 120 or more featured articles.
10 June 2014
WikiProject North America now covers 750 or more articles in total.
8 June 2014
WikiProject Somerset now includes 100 or more good articles.
26 May 2014
WikiProject The Beatles now includes 15 or more featured articles.
23 May 2014
WikiProject Chemical Elements now includes 20 or more featured articles.
21 May 2014
WikiProject East Asia now includes 10 or more good articles.
5 May 2014
WikiProject Theatre now includes 50 or more good articles.
25 April 2014
4.5 million articles for English Wikipedia!!
14 April 2014
WikiProject Comedy now includes 50 or more featured list articles.
9 April 2014
WikiProject Psychology now includes 50 or more good articles.
7 April 2014
WikiProject College football now includes 30 or more featured articles.
WikiProject Novels now includes 50 or more featured articles.
WikiProject Films now includes 600 or more good articles.
WikiProject Theatre now includes 30 or more featured articles.
WikiProject Religion now includes 120 or more good articles.
WikiProject Conservatism now includes 30 or more featured articles.
2 January 2014
WikiProject Ohio now includes 150 or more good articles.
WikiProject East Asia now includes 1000 or more total articles.
1 January 2014
WikiProject Ohio now includes 150 or more good articles.
22 December 2013
WikiProject North America now covers 250 or more articles in total.
21 December 2013
WikiProject Japan now includes 125 or more good articles.
20 December 2013
WikiProject Japan now includes 273 or more good articles.
16 December 2013
WikiProject Japan now includes 100 or more featured articles.
12 December 2013
WikiProject Oregon now includes 30 or more featured articles.
10 December 2013
WikiProject Journalism now includes 102 or more good articles.
WikiProject Television now includes 125 or more featured articles.
25 November 2013
WikiProject Films now includes 593 or more good articles.
WikiProject Journalism now includes 30 or more featured articles.
23 November 2013
WikiProject Films now includes 592 or more good articles.
13 November 2013
WikiProject Japan now includes 263 or more good articles.
25 October 2013
Wikipedia in total for all 287 languages has reached 30,000,000 articles on October 20 around 12:07 UTC.
Previous milestones were: 10,000,000 articles on March 28, 2008 (press release), and 20,000,000 articles on October 22, 2011.
19 October 2013
WikiProject Films now includes 582 or more good articles.
18 October 2013
WikiProject Films now includes 110 or more featured articles.
Wikiproject The Clash now includes 3 or more good articles.
5 October 2013
WikiProject Journalism now includes 50 or more good articles.
20 September 2013
WikiProject Journalism now includes 100 or more good articles.
WikiProject Russia now includes 250 or more good articles.
WikiProject Family Guy now includes 100 or more good articles.
27 August 2013
WikiProject Christianity now includes 140 or more featured articles.
25 August 2013
The English Wikipedia now has 4000 or more featured articles.
14 August 2013
WikiProject Films now includes 566 or more good articles.
23 July 2013
WikiProject Chess now includes 4000 or more category articles.
17 June 2013
WikiProject Novels now includes 200 or more good articles.
15 June 2013
WikiProject Christianity now includes 400 or more good articles.
10 June 2013
WikiProject The Beatles now includes 75 or more good articles.
28 May 2013
Wikiproject Popular Culture now includes 10 or more good articles.
17 May 2013
WikiProject Japan now includes 231 or more good articles.
9 May 2013
WikiProject Vital Articles now includes 75 or more good articles.
7 May 2013
WikiProject Islam now includes 40 or more good articles.
5 May 2013
WikiProject Theatre now includes 40 or more good articles.
3 May 2013
WikiProject Films now includes 20 or more good articles.
1 May 2013
WikiProject Films now includes 550 or more good articles.
30 April 2013
WikiProject Journalism now includes 90 or more good articles.
28 April 2013
WikiProject College football now includes 200 or more good articles.
WikiProject North America now covers 200 or more articles in total.
26 April 2013
WikiProject South Park now includes 5 or more featured articles.
16 April 2013
WikiProject Comedy now includes 600 or more good articles.
23 March 2013
WikiProject Japan now includes 100 or more good articles.
14 March 2013
WikiProject Japan now includes 225 or more good articles.
WikiProject Anglicanism now includes 100 or more good articles.
WikiProject Somerset now includes 75 or more good articles.
1 March 2013
WikiProject Norway now includes 250 or more good articles.
27 January 2013
WikiProject Somerset now includes 15 or more featured list articles.
26 December 2012
WikiProject Films now includes 500 or more good articles.
19 December 2012
WikiProject Conservatism now covers 4000 or more articles in total.
8 December 2012
WikiProject Television now includes 1500 or more good articles.
7 December 2012
WikiProject Novels now includes 40 or more featured articles.
19 September 2012
WikiProject Television now includes 150 or more featured list articles.
12 September 2012
WikiProject Russia now includes 60 or more featured articles.
6 September 2012
WikiProject Journalism now includes 80 or more good articles.
4 September 2012
WikiProject North America now covers 150 or more articles in total.
1 September 2012
WikiProject The Simpsons now includes 20 or more featured list articles.
27 August 2012
WikiProject Ohio now includes 100 or more good articles.
17 August 2012
WikiProject Russia now includes 10 or more featured list articles.
Chart
For more details on these milestones, please see Wikimedia News and Wikipedia milestones on Meta.
Milestone | Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them) |
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5,000,000 | English (1 November 2015) |
2,000,000 | Swedish (5 September 2015) |
1,000,000 | German (27 December 2009); French (21 September 2010); Dutch (17 December 2011); Italian (22 January 2013); Russian (11 May 2013); Spanish (16 May 2013); Polish (24 September 2013); Waray-Waray (8 June 2014); Vietnamese (15 June 2014); Cebuano (16 July 2014) |
500,000 | Japanese (25 June 2008); Portuguese (12 August 2009); Chinese (14 July 2012); Ukrainian (12 May 2014) |
200,000 | Norwegian (Bokmål) (13 December 2008); Finnish (12 April 2009); Catalan (21 September 2009); Czech (6 July 2011); Hungarian (10 September 2011); Korean (19 May 2012); Persian (9 July 2012); Romanian (5 August 2012); Arabic (21 October 2012); Indonesian (26 October 2012); Kazakh (29 November 2012); Turkish (9 December 2012); Malay (21 March 2013); Serbian (6 July 2013); Minangkabau (10 September 2013); Serbo-Croatian (27 July 2014); Esperanto (13 August 2014); Basque (19 September 2014); Slovak (5 February 2015); Danish (11 June 2015); Bulgarian (12 June 2015) |
100,000 | Volapük (7 September 2007); Hebrew (10 January 2010); Lithuanian (18 January 2010); Slovene (15 August 2010); Croatian (7 July 2011); Hindi (30 August 2011); Estonian (25 August 2012); Galician (4 March 2013); Uzbek (20 March 2013); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (9 April 2013); Simple English (29 May 2013); Armenian (2 December 2013); Latin (18 December 2013); Greek (9 April 2014); Chechen (18 July 2015); Belarusian (28 August 2015); Georgian (12 October 2015) |
50,000 | Haitian (12 August 2008); Newar / Nepal Bhasa (15 April 2009); Thai (4 September 2009); Tagalog (15 January 2011); Macedonian (2 October 2011); Occitan (30 October 2011); Piedmontese (31 December 2011); Telugu (13 March 2012); Tamil (18 December 2012); Welsh (19 July 2013); Tatar (27 July 2013); Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) (6 August 2013); Latvian (17 August 2013); Albanian (11 October 2013); Urdu (24 April 2014); Bosnian (28 April 2014); Breton (9 July 2014); Malagasy (29 December 2014); Azerbaijani (29 March 2015); Min Nan (10 October 2015) |
20,000 | Bishnupriya Manipuri (16 August 2007); Luxembourgish (2 February 2008); Icelandic (15 February 2008); Marathi (22 September 2008); Bengali (28 June 2009); Javanese (13 July 2009); Aragonese (4 April 2010); Swahili (21 August 2010); Ido (23 August 2010); Lombard (14 April 2011); West Frisian (22 May 2011); Gujarati (1 June 2011); Yoruba (3 July 2011); Malayalam (5 September 2011); Western Panjabi (6 September 2011); Afrikaans (11 November 2011); Nepali (7 May 2012); Cantonese (18 May 2012); Burmese (23 July 2012); Sicilian (27 October 2012); Bashkir (31 October 2012); Low Saxon (2 December 2012); Kyrgyz (3 December 2012); Irish (14 June 2013); Kurdish (19 August 2013); Tajik (9 September 2013); Chuvash (10 November 2013); Scots (17 January 2014); Asturian (8 December 2014); Alemannic (12 October 2015) |
10,000 | Neapolitan (20 June 2006); Sundanese (13 April 2007); Walloon (20 March 2008); Quechua (13 March 2009); Samogitian (7 April 2009); Kannada (14 January 2011); Buginese (8 November 2011); Interlingua (5 December 2011); Banyumasan (10 January 2012); Sorani (3 August 2012); Mazandarani (30 August 2012); Egyptian Arabic (5 March 2013); Yiddish (16 March 2013); Venetian (25 March 2013); Mongolian (8 August 2013); Sakha (5 January 2014); Sinhalese (3 February 2014); Punjabi (10 April 2014); Faroese (29 May 2014); Bavarian (26 July 2014); Nahuatl (23 August 2014); Ossetian (21 November 2014); Amharic (29 March 2015); Scottish Gaelic (29 March 2015); Hill Mari (4 July 2015); Sanskrit (15 July 2015); Limburgish (31 August 2015); Oriya (8 October 2015) |
5,000 | Tarantino (2 August 2007); Maori (10 September 2007); Kapampangan (1 April 2008); Upper Sorbian (24 July 2008); Gilaki (30 April 2009); Gan (29 March 2010); Central Bicolano (21 April 2011); Fiji Hindi (16 June 2011); Tibetan (14 December 2011); Ilokano (19 April 2012); Northern Sami (1 July 2012); Dutch Low Saxon (12 September 2012); Voro (7 October 2012); Rusyn/Ruthenian (22 January 2013); Pashto (28 February 2014); Meadow Mari (9 May 2014); Pangasinan (22 June 2014); West Flemish (16 September 2014); Zazaki (29 March 2015); Mingrelian (7 April 2015); Corsican (1 July 2015); Hakka (14 August 2015); South Azerbaijani (18 August 2015); Turkmen (27 August 2015); Emiliano-Romagnolo (21 October 2015); Sardinian (24 October 2015) |
2,000 | Norman (14 November 2006); Friulian (22 April 2007); Bhojpuri/Bihari (29 April 2007); Pali (7 June 2007); Ligurian (2 November 2007); Divehi (28 December 2007); Romansh (29 January 2008); Wu (17 February 2008); Classical Chinese (26 April 2008); Franco-Provençal/Arpitan (2 May 2008); Maltese (5 May 2008); Manx (17 November 2008); Khmer (27 November 2008); Kashubian (4 June 2009); Uyghur (17 June 2009); Ladino (3 July 2009); Ripuarian (5 November 2009); Anglo-Saxon (5 April 2010); Cornish (15 November 2010); Udmurt (21 April 2011); Komi (16 May 2011); Navajo (18 May 2011); Komi-Permyak (11 June 2011); Somali (13 June 2011); Saterland Frisian (3 December 2011); Extremaduran (27 December 2011); Silesian (30 December 2011); Zeelandic (16 January 2012); Aymara (1 April 2012); Picard (10 June 2012); Gagauz (1 September 2012); Veps (19 September 2012); Guarani (5 November 2012); Interlingue (31 December 2012); Lingala (6 January 2013); Assamese (13 January 2013); Acehnese (15 May 2013); Mirandese (18 September 2013); Shona (23 December 2013); Lower Sorbian (15 April 2014); Crimean Tatar (28 April 2014); Lezgian (8 June 2014); Zamboanga Chavacano (12 June 2014); Kabyle (1 November 2014); Min Dong (29 January 2015); Palatinate German (15 March 2015); North Frisian (29 March 2015); Sindhi (17 April 2015); Kalmyk (8 May 2015); Erzya (16 May 2015); Northern Luri (18 June 2015); Avar (19 August 2015); Karachay-Balkar (28 August 2015); Hawaiian (7 September 2015); Northern Sotho (14 September 2015) |
1,000 | Pennsylvania German (16 October 2006); Tongan (25 April 2007); Lojban (26 August 2009); Wolof (27 August 2009); Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (21 October 2009); Banjar (30 November 2010); Greenlandic (8 December 2010); Papiamentu (12 December 2010); Kinyarwanda (10 January 2011); Tok Pisin (5 March 2011); Lak (24 July 2011); Moksha (30 July 2011); Sranan (26 August 2012); Kabardian (25 April 2013); Lao (17 August 2013); Tahitian (24 March 2014); Russian Buryat (25 April 2014); Igbo (2 June 2014); Nauruan (13 June 2014); Hausa (4 July 2014); Karakalpak (14 August 2014); Aromanian (8 October 2014); Novial (29 October 2014); Tetum (20 April 2015); Zhuang (6 July 2015); Maithili (6 October 2015); Goan Konkani (9 October 2015) |
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