Wikimedia News/2010

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Progress in 2010

• Wikipedia ends the year with 17,534,926 articles. One year ago there were 14,678,281 articles. There has been an increase of 2,856,645 articles, which means 19.46% more articles.
• Now there are 3 Wikipedias with more than 1,000,000 articles (one year ago, there were 2), 35 with more than 100,000 (29), 98 with more than 10,000 (90), 199 with more than 1,000 (184), and 266 with more than 100 (245).
• Wiktionary ends the year with 9,925,871 entries, compared with 6,854,158 last year. There has been an increase of 3,071,713 entries, which means 44.8% more entries.
• 2 Wiktionaries have more than 1,000,000 entries (unchanged from last year), 21 more than 100,000 (15), 54 more than 10,000 (49), 92 more than 1,000 (83), and 137 more than 100 (124).

December 2010

31

• The Japanese Wiktionary has reached 60,000 articles.
• The Albanian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

28

• The Romanian Wikinews has reached 1,000 news articles.
• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 4,500,000 edits.

25

• The Kinyarwanda Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

21

• The Palatinate German Wikipedia has reached 200 articles (see explanation).
• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 16,000 entries.
• The Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 250,000 articles with ЯТБ-1.
• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles.

20

• The Danish Wikipedia has reached 140,000 articles with Wilhelmine Rosing.
• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

19

• The Western Panjabi Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 140,000 articles.

16

• The Avar Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

15

Korean Wikipedia 150K logo

• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.

13

• The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

12

• The English Wikipedia has reached 3,500,000 articles.
• The Papiamentu Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

8

• The Greenlandic Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

7

• The North Frisian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Bashkir Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

5

• The Ripuarian Wikipedia is down to just under 11,000 articles after a massive number of redirects labeled with the {delete} template (temporarily inflating the article count) were actually deleted.
• The Piedmontese Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles with Medeo VIII, about Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy in the 15th century and also known as the antipope Felix V.
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 180,000 articles.

3

• The Ripuarian Wikipedia has increased its apparent size by 33% in the last 21 hours (passing 20,000 articles in the process).

1

• The Scots Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Tigrinya Wikipedia has reached 200 articles with yet another series of number stubs.

November 2010

30

• The Estonian Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles with Käsmu kirik.
• The Banjar Wikipedia reaches 1,000 articles with Amphoe Noen Kham, part of a series of stubs on districts in Thailand by Md. Farhan.
• Another series of number stubs by Kmoksy pushes the Shona Wikipedia over the 100-article mark with Zana negumi.

29

• Kmoksy pushes the Chichewa Wikipedia over the 100-article mark with Makumi anayi, part of another series of number entries.
• Another series of number stubs by Kmoksy pushes the Luganda Wikipedia over 100 articles.

28

• The Chinese Wikisource was blocked in mainland China by the Great Firewall.
• The Swedish Wikisource has reached 5,000 text units.
• The Corsican Wikiquote is locked due to inactivity.

27

• The Kirundi Wikipedia reaches 100 articles after Kmoksy creates scores of stubs about numbers.

26

• The Hausa Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

24

• The Gagauz Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Pashto Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Polish Wiktionary has reached 200,000 entries with podsiedlecki.

22

• The Icelandic Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

20

Croatian Wikipedia 90K logo

• The Croatian Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.

16

• The Belarusian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.

15

• The Cornish Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Zulu Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

14

• The Swedish Wikiquote has reached 1,000 pages.

13

• The Azeri Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
• The Gagauz and Palatinate German Wikipedias, the Limburgish Wikibooks, the Breton and Venetian Wikisources, the Esperanto Wikinews, and the Swedish Wikiversity open their doors.

11

• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles with Lempesu, Pasir Balengkong, Paser.
• The Nauruan and Low Saxon Wikibooks are both locked due to inactivity.

9

• The Czech Wikinews has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Buryat (Russia) Wikipedia has reached 100 articles with ‎Чавааш Республика (about the Chuvash Republic).
• The Malayalam Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

8

• The Basque Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.

5

• The Nepali Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles with the addition of hundreds of stubs for years before the common era (BCE).
• The Bosnian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

October 2010

31

• The Urdu Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles with the addition of approximately 200 articles for years in the 9th and 10th centuries.

27

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

25

• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 6,000,000th revision.
• After a cleanup-drive, the Tumbuka Wikipedia is down to 55 articles again.
• The Tagalog Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

24

• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 75,000 articles with Madurejo, Sambung Makmur, Banjar.

23

• The Banjar Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

22

• Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000,000 edits across all languages.

20

• The Malagasy Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries.

17

• The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 300,000 entries with борт- (bort-).
• The Persian Wikinews, Komi-Permyak Wikipedia, Banjar Wikipedia and Hill Mari Wikipedia have been created.
• The Tumbuka Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles, but only because hundreds of articles have been created in English in the past couple of weeks.

16

• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 19,000 entries with stórmerki (wonder).

Russian Wikipedia 600K commemorative logo

12

• The Scots Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.
• The Northern Sami Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.

10

• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 175,000 articles.

8

• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles.
• The Zulu Wikibooks is locked due to inactivity.

7

• The Nynorsk Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.

September 2010

27

• The Romani Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
• The Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia has reached 8,000 articles with Sylvester Stallone.

26

• The Korean Wiktionary has reached 150,000 entries.

24

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 130,000 articles.
• The Finnish Wikipedia has reached 250,000 articles.

The French Wikipedia celebrates 1,000,000 articles.

21

• The French Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 articles with Louis Babel.

19

• The Latvian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.

18

• The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.
• The Amharic Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

14

• The Aymara Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Swahili Wikibooks is locked due to inactivity.

13

• The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.

10

• The Mongolian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

7

• The English Wiktionary has reached 2,000,000 entries.

6

• The Yoruba Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

4

• The Polish Wikibooks has reached 5,000 modules.

3

• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles with Lagu kebangsaan Uthmaniyyah.

1

• The German Wikisource has reached 50,000 text units.
• The Vector skin and accompanying editor is rolled out to all remaining Wikimedia projects, replacing MonoBook as the default.

August 2010

31

• The Japanese Wikipedia has reached 700,000 articles.
• The Picard Wikipedia has reached 10,000 edits.

26

• The Picard Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Fiji Hindi Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

25

Persian Wikipedia 100K logo

Czech Wiktionary

• The Persian Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles.
• The Czech Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries.

24

• The Abkhazian Wikipedia has reached 500 articles with Венера.
• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles with "Burabod" (spring), by JinJian, who has created at least 10,000 one-sentence geographical entries in the past month.
• The Ido Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles with Joseph E. Stiglitz.

21

• The Luxembourg Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles with Krasnojarsk.
• The Swahili Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

20

• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 130,000 articles.

19

• The Russian Wikisource has reached 100,000 articles.
• The North Frisian Wikipedia and Korean Wikinews open their doors.

17

• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles.

15

• The Slovene Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles.
• The Hakka Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Ewe Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

14

• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries.

5

• The Fijian Wikipedia is down to about 1,500 articles after an initial clean-up drive.
• The Sorani Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

4

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 60,000 entries with எலுமிச்சம் பழம்.

3

The Armenian Wikipedia 10K logo

• The Armenian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Tahitian Wikipedia has fallen back to around 1,000 articles again after a mass deletion of articles.

2

• The Aromanian Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles with Arãulu Pend Oreille (USA), by Laodikit, who has created at least 50,000 zero-sentence geographical entries in the past month.

July 2010

29

• The Ewe Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

28

• The Zamboanga Chavacano Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

27

• The MediaWiki SVN repository has reached 70,000 revisions.
• The Tibetan Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

23

• By continuously creating templated one-liners, Lousyi boosts the Fijian Wikipedia to 2,600 articles.

21

• The Turkmen Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles with Tanganika.

19

• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles with Himangráw.

16

• The Czech Wikiquote has reached 2,000 articles.

15

• The Fijian Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

14

• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 14,000 entries.

11

• The Zhuang Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

9

• The Czech Wikinews has reached 10,000th revision.

8

• The Inupiak Wikipedia has reached 200 articles.

4

• Continuing bot activity brings the Aromanian Wikipedia to 50,000 articles, quintupling the number of articles in 54 days.

2

• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles with जर्मनीची राज्ये.
• The Emiliano-Romagnolo Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

1

• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 555,555 articles.
• 83 more projects have been switched to the new Vector skin.

June 2010

30

The Catalan Wikipedia 250K commemorative logo

• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles with Harók.
• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 250,000 articles.
• The Western Panjabi Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

28

• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 100 featured articles with Kuiperův pás (Kuiper belt).

26

• The Czech Wikibooks has reached 20,000th revision.

22

• The Belarusian Wiktionary has reached 1,000 articles.

The Italian Wikipedia 700K commemorative logo (2nd version)

• The Italian Wikipedia has reached 700,000 articles.
• The Picard Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

21

• The Lombard Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.

20

• The Nepali Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

19

• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 18,000 entries.

18

• The Czech Wikiversity has reached 20,000th revision.

17

• The Belarusian (Taraškievica) Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.

11

• The Somali Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

10

• The Top 9 Wikipedias have been switched to the new Vector skin.
• The Korean Wiktionary has reached 100,000 entries.
• The Romanian Wikibooks has reached 300 modules with Manual:Regulile de circulaţie/biciclete şi mopede.

9

• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles with Tambís.
• The Latin Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles with Amphitruo (Plautus).

7

Award and chocolate notebook for Czech Wikipedia

• The Gujarati Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles
• Continuing bot activity brings the Aromanian Wikipedia to 40,000 articles, quadrupling the number of articles in 27 days.
• The Czech Wikipedia has been awarded the Project of the year award in the public voting part of the Czech Open Source awards. It is the third time (after 2007 and 2008) when it has received the award. In 2007, the Czech Wikipedia was also the overall winner of COS.

6

• The Fijian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles

2

• The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 130,000 articles

May 2010

31

• The Croatian Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.

29

• Continuing bot activity brings the Aromanian Wikipedia to 30,000 articles, tripling the number of articles in 18 days.

25

• The Chechen Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

The Bulgarian Wikipedia 100K commemorative logo

24

• The Bulgarian Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles on the day celebrating Saints Cyril and Methodius, the inventors of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets.

23

• The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles.

22

• Continuing bot activity brings the Aromanian Wikipedia to 20,000 articles, doubling the number of articles in 11 days.

20

• The Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

18

• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 3,000,000 edits, as NTT adds Persondata to the bottom of the Marco Polo article.
• The Estonian Wikipedia has reached 75,000 articles with Severo-Kurilsk.

16

• The Belarusian Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

14

• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles with Lumód.

13

• The English Wikipedia has switched to the new Vector skin.

12

• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 700,000 articles.

11

• The Aromanian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

10

• The Greenlandic Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

9

• The Fijian Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.

8

• The Kalmyk Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 150,000 articles.

7

• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles with Im-ím. JinJian has been busy generating stubs on French communes after earlier efforts on world political subdivisions and their capital cities.

1

• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles with Ulapíng.

April 2010

30

• The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles.
• The Tahitian Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

26

• The English Wiktionary has reached 1,700,000 entries.

25

• The Croatian Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
• The Karachay-Balkar Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

23

• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 13,000 entries.

21

• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles with Karoha.

20

• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
• The Thai Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.

19

• The Estonian Wikipedia has reached 2,000,000 edits.

17

• The Macedonian Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.

16

• Wikimedia has reached 1,000,000,000 edits across all content wikis.

10

The Greek Wikipedia 50K commemorative logo

• The Greek Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.

7

The Ukrainian Wikipedia 200K commemorative logo

• The Ukrainian Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles with Список країн за видобутком вугілля.

6

• Commons has switched to the new Vector skin.

5

The Catalan Wikibooks commemorative logo.

• The Catalan Wikibooks has reached 1,000 pages.
• The Anglo-Saxon Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 50,000 entries.

4

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

3

• The Aragonese Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles.

2

• The Polish Wikisource has reached 15,000 text units.

1

Esperanto Wikipedia celebrates April with a Month of Wikipedia contest.

• The Esperanto Wikipedia declares April as the "Month of Wikipedia" ("Monato de Vikipedio") featuring a community-supported contest with prizes to expand articles in the list of 1,000 articles.
• The Hebrew Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.

March 2010

31

• The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 500,000 articles.

30

• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 120,000 articles.

29

• The Gan Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

28

Chinese Wikipedia celebrates 300,000 articles

• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles with 2001年邁阿密大師賽.
• The Catalan Wikipedia overtakes the Finnish Wikipedia.

26

• The Ukrainian Wiktionary has reached 25,000 articles.

25

• The Icelandic Wiktionary has reached 17,000 entries.

21

• The North Frisian Wikipedia (currently still in the Incubator) has reached 500 articles.
• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 20,000 articles with Lugit.
• The Italian Wikiquote has reached 10,000 articles with Fazio degli Uberti.
• The Karachay-Balkar Wikipedia opens its doors.
• After being closed and its database locked some time ago, the Tokipona Wikipedia has been completely removed.

17

• The Lombard Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

15

• The French Wikiversity has reached 1,000 lesson pages.

13

• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 130,000 articles.
• 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 (Wikimedia User Group in Kansai) has hosted a booth at Open Source Conference Kobe@Kansai. Around 50 people have visited Wikimedia booth, which is one tenth of all event participants.

7

• The Welsh Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
• The English Wiktionary has reached 1,600,000 entries.
• The Egyptian Arabic (Masry) Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

5

• The Serbian Wikinews has reached 30,000 news articles.

2

• The Waray-Waray Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles with Dako nga Tagapagpabunggo hin Hadron.

1

• The Hungarian Wikinews has reached 500 articles.

February 2010

26

• The French Wikiquote has reached 2,000 articles with Wajdi Mouawad.

25

Russian Wikipedia
(lemon is the Russian expression for million)

• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 500,000 articles with Ys.

24

• The Ossetian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Ndonga Wikipedia and Dutch Wikinews are both locked due to inactivity.

23

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.
• The Romanian Wikinews has reached 500 articles.
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached its 5,000,000th revision.

21

• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 140,000 articles.
• The Azeri Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.

20

• The Irish Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles with Ivan Bunin.

17

Czech Wikipedia

• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.
• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 35,000 entries.

15

• Wiktionary has reached 40,000,000 edits across all languages.

13

• Wikipedia has reached 15,000,000 articles across all 272 languages.

12

• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 130,000 articles.

10

• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 5,000 files.

9

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.

7

• The Malagasy Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.

6

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 25,000 entries.

5

• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 120,000 articles.
• The Japanese Wiktionary has reached 50,000 articles.

4

• The Malay Wikibooks has reached 100 entries with Congkak.
• The Czech Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.
• The Alemannic Wikisource has reached 200 text units.

January 2010

30

• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 110,000 articles.
• The Yoruba Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.

24

• The Ukrainian Wikisource has reached 3,000 text units with Мамаїзм ІV.
• The Sorani Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

23

The Portuguese Wiktionary comemorative logo.

• The Portuguese Wiktionary has reached 100,000 articles.

22

• The Kyrgyz Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.

21

• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 125,000 articles with 강광배 (Kang Kwang-Bae).

18

The Lithuanian Wikipedia at 100,000 articles.

• The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles with Degėsių piliakalnis, a Lithuanian hill fort.

14

• The French Wikipedia has reached 900,000 articles.

10

The Hebrew Wikipedia at 100,000 articles.

• The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles with אחוזת סיטון דלאוואל.

6

• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles with senarai raja England.

5

• The Malayalam Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.

4

• The Lower Sorbian Wikipedia has reached 500 articles with Cookowe kupy.

2

• The Catalan Wikipedia becomes the first of the list of Wikipedias by sample of articles.

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