Wikipedia
The project began with the English-language Wikipedia on January 15, 2001. On March 16, 2001, it was joined by German Wikipedia, and shortly afterwards by many other languages. Large efforts are underway to highlight the international nature of the project.
As of April 2025, there are 339 Wikipedias which have over 100 articles, 178 of which have over 10,000 articles, and 73 of which have over 100,000 articles.
As of April 2025, there are 356 language editions of Wikipedia, which collectively have 64,830,452 articles.
For detailed statistics, see the List of Wikipedias.
Milestones
On 20 September 2004 Wikipedia reached a total of 1,000,000 articles in more than 100 languages.
The English Wikipedia hit 1,000,000 articles on 1 March 2006, 2,000,000 articles on 9 September 2007, 3,000,000 articles on 17 August 2009, 4,000,000 articles on 13 July 2012, 5,000,000 articles on 1 November 2015, and 6,000,000 articles on 23 January 2020.
Following the English-language Wikipedia, the German (27 December 2009), French (21 September 2010), Dutch (17 December 2011), Italian (23 January 2013), Russian (11 May 2013), Spanish (16 May 2013), Swedish (15 June 2013)[1], Polish (24 September 2013), Waray (8 June 2014), Vietnamese (15 June 2014), Cebuano (16 July 2014)[1], 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) and Persian editions (22 April 2024) each have more than 1,000,000 articles.
On 5 September 2015, the Swedish Wikipedia hit 2,000,000 articles followed by the Cebuano (14 February 2016)[1], German (19 November 2016), French (8 July 2018), Dutch (8 March 2020), Russian (18 September 2024) and Spanish editions (2 January 2025).
On 27 April 2016, the Swedish Wikipedia hit 3,000,000 articles followed by the Cebuano (14 February 2016)[1] and German editions (25 March 2025).
On 11 February 2017, the Cebuano Wikipedia hit 4,000,000 articles.[1]
On 8 August 2017, the Cebuano Wikipedia hit 5,000,000 articles.[1]
On 14 October 2021, the Cebuano Wikipedia hit 6,000,000 articles.[1]
In 2004 Wikipedia won the Webby Award for "Community" and the Prix Ars Electronica for "Digital Community". In 2015, the Erasmus Prize was awarded to the Wikipedia community collectively.
Language versions
Texts about Wikipedia
- Wikipedia - by Mark Jeays, 2002 – an article for The Canadian Writer's Guide (13th Edition)
- Wikipedia (Everything2) – an Everything2 node by Axel Boldt
See also
- Wikipedia
- List of Wikipedias
- List of largest wikis
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikimedia projects
- Wikipedia:Multilingual statistics (inactive)
- Wikimedian
- Hardware maintenance and software development: MediaWiki development
- Wikimedia principles