Wikipedia:Milestones

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).

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Milestones

13 July 2012

The four millionth article is written. [1]

3 July 2012

WikiProject National Basketball Association now includes 75 or more good articles.

26 June 2012

WikiProject College football now includes 175 or more good articles.

WikiProject Television now includes 1500 or more good articles.

WikiProject Television now includes 100 or more featured articles.

21 June 2012

WikiProject Multi-sport events now includes 15 or more good articles.

17 June 2012

WikiProject Religion now includes 100 or more good articles.

14 June 2012

WikiProject East Asia now covers 750 or more articles in total.

13 June 2012

WikiProject Oregon now includes 100 or more good articles.

2 June 2012

WikiProject Japan now includes 200 or more good articles.

30 May 2012

WikiProject Norway now includes 200 or more good articles.

8 May 2012

WikiProject Religion now includes 90 or more good articles.

7 May 2012

WikiProject Films now includes 450 or more good articles.

WikiProject Religion now includes 50 or more featured articles.

26 April 2012

WikiProject Religion now includes 80 or more good articles.

25 April 2012

WikiProject Religion now includes 40 or more featured articles.

19 April 2012

WikiProject Psychology now includes 30 or more good articles.

15 April 2012

WikiProject Anglicanism now includes 50 or more featured articles.

WikiProject Christianity now includes 120 or more featured articles.

9 April 2012

WikiProject Novels now includes 150 or more good articles.

6 April 2012

WikiProject Psychology now includes 15 or more featured articles.

WikiProject The Beatles now includes 10 or more featured articles.

5 April 2012

WikiProject Comedy now includes 500 or more good articles.

19 March 2012

WikiProject Conservatism now includes 50 or more good articles.

27 February 2012

WikiProject Conservatism now includes 25 or more featured articles.

19 February 2012

WikiProject Journalism now includes 25 or more featured articles.

15 February 2012

WikiProject Christianity now includes 100 or more featured articles.

14 February 2012

WikiProject Atheism now includes 10 or more good articles.

13 February 2012

Wikiproject Popular Culture now includes 5 or more good articles.

12 February 2012

WikiProject Scientology now includes 30 or more good articles.

WikiProject Religion now includes 70 or more good articles.

18 January 2012

WikiProject Russia now includes 200 or more good articles.

8 January 2012

WikiProject Television now includes 1250 or more good articles.

29 December 2011

WikiProject Japan now includes 175 or more good articles.

7 December 2011

WikiProject North America now covers 100 or more articles in total.

6 December 2011

WikiProject Christianity now includes 300 or more good articles.

24 November 2011

WikiProject Norway now includes 175 or more good articles.

3 November 2011

WikiProject Chemical Elements now includes 50 or more good articles.

1 November 2011

WikiProject Psychology now includes 25 or more good articles.

31 October 2011

WikiProject The Simpsons now includes 300 or more good articles.

2 October 2011

WikiProject Russia now includes 50 or more featured articles.

WikiProject Christianity now includes 120 or more good articles.

28 September 2011

WikiProject Films now includes 400 or more good articles.

WikiProject Christianity now includes 275 or more good articles.

26 September 2011

WikiProject Novels now includes 120 or more good articles.

22 September 2011

WikiProject College football now includes 40 or more featured list articles.

WikiProject Journalism now includes 70 or more good articles.

12 August 2011

WikiProject Theatre now includes 30 or more good articles.

7 August 2011

• Esperanto Wikipedia reaches 150 000 articles.

5 August 2011

WikiProject Anglicanism now includes 75 or more good articles.

3 July 2011

WikiProject Family Guy now includes 80 or more good articles.

14 June 2011

WikiProject Russia now includes 150 or more good articles.

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.

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)
2,000,000	English (9 September 2007)
1,000,000	German (27 December 2009); French (21 September 2010); Dutch (17 December 2011)
500,000	Polish (14 May 2008); Japanese (25 June 2008); Italian (3 October 2008); Spanish (5 August 2009); Portuguese (12 August 2009); Russian (25 February 2010); Chinese (14 July 2012)
200,000	Swedish (23 December 2006); Norwegian (Bokmål) (13 December 2008); Finnish (12 April 2009); Catalan (21 September 2009); Ukrainian (7 April 2010); Vietnamese (7 April 2011); Czech (6 July 2011); Hungarian (10 September 2011); Korean (19 May 2012); Persian (9 July 2012)
100,000	Volapük (7 September 2007); Romanian (11 January 2008); Turkish (3 February 2008); Esperanto (15 June 2008); Slovak (27 August 2008); Danish (29 December 2008); Indonesian (20 February 2009); Arabic (25 May 2009); Serbian (20 November 2009); Hebrew (10 January 2010); Lithuanian (18 January 2010); Bulgarian (23 May 2010); Slovene (15 August 2010); Waray-Waray (24 August 2010); Malay (9 January 2011); Basque (21 May 2011); Croatian (7 July 2011); Hindi (30 August 2011); Kazakh (26 October 2011)
50,000	Estonian (4 June 2008); Haitian (12 August 2008); Simple English (6 January 2009); Newar / Nepal Bhasa (15 April 2009); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (9 July 2009); Galician (23 July 2009); Thai (4 September 2009); Greek (10 April 2010); Aromanian (4 July 2010); Azeri (13 January 2011); Tagalog (15 January 2011); Latin (11 February 2011); Georgian (7 July 2011); Macedonian (2 October 2011); Occitan (30 October 2011); Serbo-Croatian (8 November 2011); Piedmontese (31 December 2011); Telugu (13 March 2012)
20,000	Cebuano (2 February 2007); Bishnupriya Manipuri (16 August 2007); Bosnian (30 August 2007); Luxembourgish (2 February 2008); Icelandic (15 February 2008); Albanian (19 April 2008); Breton (20 June 2008); Marathi (22 September 2008); Welsh (20 November 2008); Latvian (13 February 2009); Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) (17 June 2009); Bengali (28 June 2009); Javanese (13 July 2009); Tamil (22 November 2009); Aragonese (4 April 2010); Belarusian (16 May 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); Malagasy (16 July 2011); Malayalam (5 September 2011); Western Panjabi (6 September 2011); Afrikaans (11 November 2011); Armenian (15 January 2012); Nepali (7 May 2012); Cantonese (18 May 2012); Uzbek (5 July 2012)
10,000	Neapolitan (20 June 2006); Sundanese (13 April 2007); Low Saxon (2 July 2007); Sicilian (6 July 2007); Kurdish (19 September 2007); Asturian (20 November 2007); Walloon (20 March 2008); Quechua (13 March 2009); Urdu (29 March 2009); Chuvash (7 April 2009); Samogitian (7 April 2009); Irish (20 February 2010); Kannada (14 January 2011); Amharic (27 May 2011); Zazaki (21 June 2011); Alemannic (22 June 2011); Tatar (8 July 2011); Buginese (8 November 2011); Burmese (30 November 2011); Interlingua (5 December 2011); Banyumasan (10 January 2012); Bashkir (20 January 2012); Tajik (23 April 2012); Scottish Gaelic (17 May 2012)
5,000	Corsican (22 December 2006); Venetian (3 July 2007); Tarantino (2 August 2007); Maori (10 September 2007); Kapampangan (1 April 2008); Yiddish (5 May 2008); Upper Sorbian (24 July 2008); Nahuatl (5 September 2008); Gilaki (30 April 2009); Min Nan (30 April 2009); Limburgish (3 October 2009); Sakha (10 October 2009); Ossetian (24 February 2010); Egyptian Arabic (7 March 2010); Gan (29 March 2010); Mongolian (10 September 2010); Scots (1 December 2010); Central Bicolano (21 April 2011); Fiji Hindi (16 June 2011); Faroese (13 July 2011); Hill Mari (4 August 2011); Sanskrit (5 August 2011); Sinhalese (22 August 2011); Tibetan (14 December 2011); Bavarian (25 December 2011); Sorani (31 December 2011); Kyrgyz (13 February 2012); Ilokano (19 April 2012); Mazandarani (16 May 2012); Northern Sami (1 July 2012)
2,000	Norman (14 November 2006); Dutch Low Saxon (11 January 2007); Friulian (22 April 2007); Bhojpuri/Bihari (29 April 2007); Novial (20 May 2007); Pali (7 June 2007); Pangasinan (8 July 2007); West Flemish (27 August 2007); Ligurian (2 November 2007); Divehi (28 December 2007); Romansh (29 January 2008); Classical Chinese (26 April 2008); Franco-Provençal/Arpitan (2 May 2008); Maltese (5 May 2008); Wu (5 September 2008); Manx (17 November 2008); Khmer (27 November 2008); Voro (30 December 2008); Turkmen (19 April 2009); Kashubian (4 June 2009); Uyghur (17 June 2009); Ladino (3 July 2009); Ripuarian (5 November 2009); Sardinian (5 December 2009); Anglo-Saxon (5 April 2010); Zamboanga Chavacano (28 July 2010); Hakka (15 August 2010); Cornish (15 November 2010); Pashto (25 November 2010); Rusyn/Ruthenian (11 March 2011); Meadow Mari (13 April 2011); Udmurt (21 April 2011); Komi (16 May 2011); Navajo (18 May 2011); Komi-Permyak (11 June 2011); Somali (13 June 2011); Punjabi (25 August 2011); Saterland Frisian (3 December 2011); Extremaduran (27 December 2011); Silesian (30 December 2011); Zeelandic (16 January 2012); Oriya (17 January 2012); Mingrelian (22 February 2012); Aymara (1 April 2012); North Frisian (12 May 2012); Picard (10 June 2012)
1,000	Pennsylvania German (16 October 2006); Tongan (25 April 2007); Lingala (1 December 2007); Hawaiian (9 February 2008); Interlingue (31 May 2008); Guarani (6 September 2008); Erzya (16 July 2009); Lojban (26 August 2009); Wolof (27 August 2009); Crimean Tatar (21 October 2009); Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (21 October 2009); Acehnese (17 December 2009); Karachay-Balkar (25 April 2010); Kalmyk (8 May 2010); Emiliano-Romagnolo (2 July 2010); Banjar (30 November 2010); Greenlandic (8 December 2010); Papiamentu (12 December 2010); Chechen (8 January 2011); Kinyarwanda (10 January 2011); Tok Pisin (5 March 2011); Palatinate German (6 June 2011); Lak (24 July 2011); Moksha (30 July 2011); Avar (10 September 2011); Gagauz (2 October 2011); Assamese (7 January 2012); Lower Sorbian (28 January 2012); Kabyle (18 February 2012); Veps (10 May 2012); Shona (8 June 2012)

See also

• Wikipedia:Goings-on
• Wikipedia:News