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This page is for important milestones, statistics and Alexa ranking news concerning the English Wikipedia. Until June 2011, this page was located at Wikipedia:Announcements and was also used for posting news concerning the Wikimedia Foundation affecting the English Wikipedia. Past milestones, including past news items, can be viewed in the archives (on right).
For other news, see:
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- News items not about Wikipedia — Wikinews
- Multilingual Wikipedia news — Wikimedia News on meta
- News regarding sister projects — Wikimedia News on meta
- Article milestones across all languages — Multilingual statistics
- Mailing list for Wikimedia announcements — WikimediaAnnounce-l
Announcements
8 June 2011
WikiProject College football now includes 25 or more featured articles.
7 June 2011
The English Wikipedia now has 12000 or more good articles.
1 June 2011
WikiProject Television now includes 1000 or more good articles.
2 May 2011
WikiProject Chemical Elements now includes 40 or more good articles.
29 April 2011
WikiProject Norway now includes 150 or more good articles.
WikiProject Futurama now includes 5 or more good articles.
18 April 2011
WikiProject Japan now includes 150 or more good articles.
13 April 2011
WikiProject The Beatles now includes 50 or more good articles.
8 April 2011
WikiProject Theatre now includes 20 or more featured articles.
3 April 2011
WikiProject The Simpsons now includes 250 or more good articles.
14 February 2011
WikiProject Oregon now includes 75 or more good articles.
6 February 2011
WikiProject Films now includes 350 or more good articles.
WikiProject Journalism now includes 60 or more good articles.
WikiProject Television now includes 800 or more good articles.
WikiProject Television now includes 80 or more featured articles.
WikiProject Television now includes 90 or more featured list articles.
WikiProject Religion now includes 60 or more good articles.
WikiProject Christianity now includes 225 or more good articles.
3 January 2011
WikiProject Novels now includes 100 or more good articles.
31 December 2010
WikiProject Television now includes 80 or more featured list articles.
30 December 2010
WikiProject Television now includes 70 or more featured articles.
25 December 2010
WikiProject Somerset now includes 50 or more good articles.
22 December 2010
WikiProject College football now includes 150 or more good articles.
18 December 2010
WikiProject Comedy now includes 400 or more good articles.
9 December 2010
WikiProject Family Guy now includes 70 or more good articles.
7 December 2010
WikiProject Norway now includes 125 or more good articles.
WikiProject Television now includes 10 or more good articles.
5 December 2010
WikiProject Television now includes 700 or more good articles.
29 November 2010
WikiProject South Park now includes 35 or more good articles.
WikiProject Chemical Elements now includes 30 or more good articles.
20 November 2010
WikiProject Television now includes 70 or more featured list articles.
15 November 2010
The English Wikipedia now has 10000 or more good articles.
4 November 2010
WikiProject Russia now includes 90 or more good articles.
WikiProject Christianity now includes 100 or more featured articles.
5 October 2010
WikiProject Novels now includes 95 or more good articles.
WikiProject Russia now includes 80 or more good articles.
3 October 2010
WikiProject Chess now includes 3500 or more category articles.
2 October 2010
The English Wikipedia now has 3000 or more featured articles.
29 September 2010
WikiProject Religion now includes 50 or more good articles.
25 September 2010
WikiProject Scientology now includes 20 or more good articles.
16 September 2010
WikiProject College football now includes 35 or more featured list articles.
15 September 2010
WikiProject College football now includes 140 or more good articles.
WikiProject Novels now includes 90 or more good articles.
The English Wikipedia now has 9500 or more good articles.
WikiProject Christianity now includes 200 or more good articles.
30 August 2010
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for experienced Wikipedia editors - free airline fare, hotel, and other living expenses! - to spend three days in San Francisco at the end of September, figuring out how to help the Wikipedia community (and other Foundation projects) to create more how-to screencasts. You don't have to have experience creating screencasts to be considered - see here for the application information. (Deadline is August 30th Wednesday, September 1.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:27, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
11 August 2010
WikiProject Television now includes 650 or more good articles.
9 August 2010
WikiProject Somerset now includes 10 or more featured articles.
18 July 2010
WikiProject Family Guy now includes 60 or more good articles.
16 July 2010
WikiProject Novels now includes 35 or more featured articles.
WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan now includes 10 or more good articles.
6 July 2010
WikiProject Japan now includes 75 or more featured articles.
1 July 2010
WikiProject Norway now includes 10 or more featured list articles.
WikiProject Psychology now includes 20 or more good articles.
9 June 2010
WikiProject Russia now includes 70 or more good articles.
26 May 2010
WikiProject Norway now includes 100 or more good articles.
19 May 2010
The English Wikipedia now has 9000 or more good articles.
17 May 2010
WikiProject Family Guy now includes 50 or more good articles.
8 May 2010
WikiProject College football now includes 30 or more featured list articles.
5 May 2010
WikiProject College football now includes 130 or more good articles.
3 May 2010
WikiProject Russia now includes 60 or more good articles.
30 April 2010
WikiProject Television now includes 600 or more good articles.
23 April 2010
WikiProject Novels now includes 85 or more good articles.
20 April 2010
WikiProject Buddhism now includes 20 or more good articles.
19 April 2010
The English Wikipedia now has 8500 or more good articles.
14 April 2010
WikiProject Oregon now includes 20 or more featured articles.
13 April 2010
WikiProject Japan now includes 125 or more good articles.
11 April 2010
WikiProject South Park now includes 30 or more good articles.
WikiProject Television now includes 550 or more good articles.
WikiProject Television now includes 60 or more featured articles.
7 April 2010
WikiProject Christianity now includes 180 or more good articles.
5 April 2010
WikiProject Lakes now includes 10 or more good articles.
4 April 2010
WikiProject Norway now includes 90 or more good articles.
23 March 2010
WikiProject College football now includes 25 or more featured list articles.
22 March 2010
WikiProject Norway now includes 80 or more good articles.
17 March 2010
WikiProject Religion now includes 40 or more good articles.
6 March 2010
WikiProject Russia now includes 50 or more good articles.
4 March 2010
WikiProject Television now includes 500 or more good articles.
1 March 2010
WikiProject Family Guy now includes 40 or more good articles.
27 February 2010
WikiProject South Park now includes 25 or more good articles.
25 February 2010
WikiProject Novels now includes 80 or more good articles.
15 February 2010
WikiProject Films now includes 300 or more good articles.
10 February 2010
WikiProject Novels now includes 30 or more featured articles.
27 January 2010
WikiProject Chemical Elements now includes 20 or more good articles.
19 January 2010
The English Wikipedia now has 8000 or more good articles.
WikiProject South Park now includes 20 or more good articles.
12 January 2010
WikiProject Vital Articles now includes 50 or more good articles.
Wikiproject Popular Culture now includes 3 or more good articles.
WikiProject Novels now includes 75 or more good articles.
11 January 2010
WikiProject Christianity now includes 90 or more featured articles.
Milestone statistics
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); Cebuano (9 August 2017) |
2,000,000 | Swedish (5 September 2015); German (19 November 2016); French (8 July 2018); Dutch (8 March 2020) |
1,000,000 | 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); Japanese (19 January 2016); Chinese (13 April 2018); Portuguese (26 June 2018); Arabic (17 November 2019); Ukrainian (22 March 2020); Egyptian Arabic (28 July 2020) |
500,000 | Catalan (11 March 2016); Persian (27 July 2016); Serbian (14 January 2018); Norwegian (Bokmål) (2 January 2019); Indonesian (14 August 2019); Korean (14 June 2020) |
200,000 | Finnish (12 April 2009); Czech (6 July 2011); Hungarian (10 September 2011); Romanian (5 August 2012); Kazakh (29 November 2012); Turkish (9 December 2012); Malay (21 March 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); Armenian (1 June 2016); Min Nan (22 September 2016); Hebrew (28 December 2016); Chechen (14 August 2018); Croatian (6 November 2018); Estonian (12 August 2019); South Azerbaijani (20 March 2020); Lithuanian (13 June 2020) |
100,000 | Volapük (7 September 2007); Slovene (15 August 2010); Hindi (30 August 2011); Galician (4 March 2013); Uzbek (20 March 2013); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (9 April 2013); Simple English (29 May 2013); Latin (18 December 2013); Greek (9 April 2014); Belarusian (28 August 2015); Georgian (12 October 2015); Azerbaijani (29 October 2015); Urdu (29 December 2015); Thai (30 January 2016); Tamil (8 May 2017); Welsh (27 March 2018); Macedonian (27 April 2019); Tajik (18 December 2019); Asturian (25 January 2020); Tatar (10 June 2020); Cantonese (12 August 2020) |
50,000 | Haitian (12 August 2008); Newar / Nepal Bhasa (15 April 2009); Tagalog (15 January 2011); Occitan (30 October 2011); Piedmontese (31 December 2011); Telugu (13 March 2012); Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) (6 August 2013); Latvian (17 August 2013); Albanian (11 October 2013); Bosnian (28 April 2014); Breton (9 July 2014); Malagasy (29 December 2014); Kyrgyz (18 December 2015); Bengali (30 April 2017); Malayalam (2 May 2017); Javanese (7 May 2017); Luxembourgish (10 September 2017); Marathi (22 December 2017); Scots (20 March 2018); Afrikaans (14 June 2018); Irish (14 January 2019); Swahili (3 May 2019); Low Saxon (5 June 2019); Sundanese (10 June 2019); Silesian (25 September 2019); Bashkir (30 October 2019); Western Panjabi (11 November 2019); Venetian (20 May 2020); Icelandic (16 June 2020) |
20,000 | Bishnupriya Manipuri (16 August 2007); Aragonese (4 April 2010); Ido (23 August 2010); Lombard (14 April 2011); West Frisian (22 May 2011); Gujarati (1 June 2011); Yoruba (3 July 2011); Nepali (7 May 2012); Burmese (23 July 2012); Sicilian (27 October 2012); Kurdish (19 August 2013); Chuvash (10 November 2013); Alemannic (12 October 2015); Punjabi (11 December 2015); Kannada (12 March 2016); Bavarian (20 July 2016); Quechua (15 February 2017); Interlingua (1 April 2017); Sorani (24 November 2017); Wu (8 June 2019); Zazaki (14 June 2020) |
10,000 | Neapolitan (20 June 2006); Walloon (20 March 2008); Samogitian (7 April 2009); Buginese (8 November 2011); Banyumasan (10 January 2012); Mazandarani (30 August 2012); Yiddish (16 March 2013); Mongolian (8 August 2013); Sakha (5 January 2014); Sinhalese (3 February 2014); Faroese (29 May 2014); Ossetian (20 December 2014); Amharic (29 March 2015); Scottish Gaelic (29 March 2015); Hill Mari (4 July 2015); Limburgish (31 August 2015); Oriya (8 October 2015); Upper Sorbian (12 December 2015); Sanskrit (23 August 2016); Ilokano (28 December 2016); Maithili (30 December 2016); Mingrelian (1 May 2017); Min Dong (12 June 2017); Emiliano-Romagnolo (15 May 2018); Meadow Mari (29 May 2018); Sindhi (1 July 2018); Pashto (28 May 2010); Classical Chinese (28 October 2019); Acehnese (8 November 2019); Navajo (26 November 2019); Central Bicolano (23 March 2020) |
5,000 | Tarantino (2 August 2007); Maori (10 September 2007); Kapampangan (1 April 2008); Nahuatl (5 September 2008); Gilaki (30 April 2009); Gan (29 March 2010); Fiji Hindi (16 June 2011); Tibetan (14 December 2011); Northern Sami (1 July 2012); Dutch Low Saxon (12 September 2012); Voro (7 October 2012); Rusyn/Ruthenian (22 January 2013); West Flemish (16 September 2014); Bhojpuri (19 October 2014); Corsican (1 July 2015); Hakka (14 August 2015); Turkmen (27 August 2015); Sardinian (24 October 2015); Veps (28 December 2015); Northern Luri (28 January 2016); Kashubian (11 April 2016); Northern Sotho (1 November 2016); Crimean Tatar (4 December 2016); Khmer (21 December 2016); Komi (11 March 2017); North Frisian (3 July 2017); Somali (26 November 2017); Erzya (12 February 2018); Assamese (25 September 2018); Shan (18 June 2019); Abkhazian (22 July 2019); Shona (8 March 2020); Manx (9 March 2020); Hausa (13 May 2020); Kotava (1 August 2020); Interlingue (10 August 2020) |
2,000 | Norman (14 November 2006); Friulian (22 April 2007); Pali (7 June 2007); Ligurian (2 November 2007); Divehi (28 December 2007); Romansh (29 January 2008); Franco-Provençal/Arpitan (2 May 2008); Maltese (5 May 2008); 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-Permyak (11 June 2011); Saterland Frisian (3 December 2011); Extremaduran (27 December 2011); Zeelandic (16 January 2012); Aymara (1 April 2012); Picard (10 June 2012); Gagauz (1 September 2012); Guarani (5 November 2012); Lingala (6 January 2013); Mirandese (18 September 2013); Lower Sorbian (15 April 2014); Lezgian (8 June 2014); Zamboanga Chavacano (12 June 2014); Kabyle (1 November 2014); Pangasinan (31 January 2015); Palatinate German (15 March 2015); Kalmyk (8 May 2015); Avar (19 August 2015); Karachay-Balkar (28 August 2015); Goan Konkani (13 February 2016); Livvi-Karelian (21 March 2017); Lao (28 April 2017); Doteli (19 July 2017); Hawaiian (21 August 2017); Russian Buryat (25 September 2017); Lingua Franca Nova (19 May 2018); Banjar (22 January 2019); Gorontalo (1 February 2019); Santali (18 December 2019); Balinese (19 February 2020); Tuvan (7 March 2020); Zulu (2 May 2020); Awadhi (1 June 2020) |
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); 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); Tahitian (24 March 2014); Igbo (2 June 2014); Nauruan (13 June 2014); Karakalpak (14 August 2014); Aromanian (8 October 2014); Novial (29 October 2014); Tetum (20 April 2015); Zhuang (6 July 2015); Kongo (21 November 2015); Kikuyu (7 March 2016); Jamaican Patois/Creole (1 June 2016); Luganda (21 June 2016); Bislama (7 April 2017); Kabiye (24 January 2018); Tulu (31 January 2019); Atikamekw (2 February 2019); Ingush (20 April 2019); Xhosa (7 August 2019); Sakizaya (6 December 2019); Guianan Creole (26 January 2020); Moroccan Arabic (1 August 2020) |