Wikipedia:Milestones

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Software status

The English Wikipedia is now using MediaWiki v1.3. Please report bugs to m:MediaWiki 1.3 comments and bug reports.

Most MediaWiki features have been reenabled including full text search and Special: pages to generate lists of orphans, short pages, and long pages. Special: pages for most wanted and most popular pages are still not working. For a full status report see: Wikipedia:Software status.

Hardware status

The addition of new servers has improved system capacity, and system performance seems noticeably improved. See meta:Wikimedia hardware status.

October 11

The Wikipedia servers' hit rate rises to a record 1000 hits/second. [1]

October 9

Wikipedia ranking is continuing to improve. The weekly traffic ranking for Wikipedia reaches a record low (i.e. best) of 290, the first time ranking in the top 300 web sites.

October 7

The beta version of Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias has opened.

October 4

A Seattle meetup of Wikipedians is scheduled for 6 November 2004. We will have people coming from as far as Vancouver, British Columbia and Portland, Oregon. Sign up if you can attend.
Wikipedia's one-day Alexa traffic rank spikes to a record high of 290. Wikipedia's average over a one-week period was 383, which is the first time it broke into the top 400. See [2] and [3].

October 1

User:Kenneth Alan has been banned for one year commencing at 00:00 October 2, 2004. See WP:RFAr/Kenneth Alan and WP:RFAr/Admin enforcement requested.

September 29

Jimbo announces that he will be in Urbana-Champaign from 22-24 October 2004, but also in the Chicago area. He is keenly desirous of having a Chicagoland Wikipedia meetup on Sunday, October 24th, in the afternoon, around 4PM and lasting possibly into the night depending on how many people arrive. Please sign up at Chicago Meetup! (And please repost this announcement in any appropriate place where it might receive attention from people in that area.)

September 23

Wikipedia's one-day Alexa traffic rank spikes to a record high of [4] 349. Wikipedia's 1-week moving average traffic rank has been consistently better than 500 since the start of September.

September 20

Wikipedia reaches a total of one million articles across all languages. Announced via an international press release.

The Wikimedia Foundation begins a two week Fundraising drive with the aim of raising $50,000.

August 27

The Main Page featured article becomes available via email.

August 20

Eight new servers being installed. Some downtime possible.

August 14

Jwrosenzweig and Raul654 are elected as the new members of the Arbitration Committee (full results)

August 12–13

Contingency plans are being made for Hurricane Charley, which was expected to make landfall near Tampa, Florida on August 13 but later veered east. Wikimedia's hosting center is prepared for the storm, and downtime is now less likely than earlier predicted. For offsite updates on Wikipedia's status, see the Wikipedia Status page at OpenFacts.

August 5

The Arbitration Committee election is now open. To vote, go to Special:ArbComVote. Voting will continue through Friday, August 13.

July 31

There was a Wikipedian meetup in Boston. See User:Raul654/Boston for the photos.

July 27

Elections have been scheduled for two open positions on the Arbitration Committee. Candidates should present their candidate statements before midnight UTC on Monday, August 2, 2004. The election will start on Wednesday, August 4, and run through Friday, August 13. Anyone who has been a registered user for 3 months is eligible to vote.

July 26

Wikipedia's 1-day Alexa traffic rank has spiked upwards to a record #389, breaking the #400 barrier for the first time, only three days after surpassing the #500 mark.

July 25

Wikipedia:Dealing with disruptive or antisocial editors/poll opens. The policy proposes compromise position on the divergent views expressed in the recent troll-polls. Poll closes midday (UTC) 8 August 2004.

July 24

Wikipedia:Trolling poll ended with majority support (42 to 27 (nayes) + 14 (abstentions) = 41) for the troll definition but controversy about how to manage them.

July 23

Wikipedia's 1-day Alexa traffic rank has steadily risen to a record 471, breaking the #500 barrier for the first time.

July 21

The Luxembourgish Wikipedia is finally online!
After weeks of poor performance, Wikipedia's 1-day Alexa traffic rank has steadily risen to a record 503. (The 1-week average figure is 570, which does not set a new record).

July 15

Another attempt to help out users in the face of the ever rapidly-changing Recent changes and New Pages pages has been set up. Wikipedia:New articles by topic lists Wikipedia namespace pages where new pages on particular (broad) topics can be listed.

July 14

The Khmer (Cambodian) Wikipedia gets its first article, on the topic of Sin Sisamouth by User:Squash. It has been started using Romanized letters until more native Khmer script writers can contribute. A village pump equivalent has been set up at Wikipedia:Kalein Teak by User:Fuzheado.

July 11

The site was switched today from using Suda as the main database server to using Ariel. It should be faster now. Suda used six 10,000 RPM SCSI disks and 2GB of RAM for the database. Ariel is using six 15,000 RPM disks and 7GB of RAM.

July 10

Wikipedia:Trolling poll, a poll to determine our policy with regard to trolls, begins. It will last for two weeks.

July 7

English Wikipedia reaches 300,000 articles. Rene Gagnon is the reported 300,000th article. Congratulations! The milestone has been announced on Slashdot [5]; Wikipedia is so far holding up under the load, as are the linked articles, Crushing by elephant and GNU/Linux naming controversy. The story includes a request for more MediaWiki developers, linked to m:How to become a MediaWiki hacker.
English Wikipedia reaches 5,000,000 edits. This is one million edits since May 17, 51 days ago. The previous million edits took 64 days, so the current rate of almost 20,000 edits a day is a record. As well, the number of edits per article is at 12.6 and still increasing, so edits are increasing faster than new articles.

July 3

Some editors are trying to write to get Wikimedia an NEH grant of up to $500,000. If you want to help see m:NEH Reference materials grant application.

June 21, 2004

Access to the Chinese Wikipedia has now been restored for users in Mainland China. Mailing list post: [6]

June 19, 2004

Server will be down for maintenance from about 18:00 to 21:00 UTC. The new database server, Ariel, will be put into the production setup. It is planned to have Wikipedia be read-only from a several days old backup during this time. See the mailing list post [7].

June 13, 2004

Wikimedia Board of Directors elections results: Anthere and Angela were announced as the Contributing Active Member Representative and the Volunteer User Representative, respectively. A report by Danny and Imran is forthcoming, after getting consent from the candidates.
The German Wikipedia has reached the big milestone of 100,000 articles.

June 12, 2004

All of Wikipedia has been blocked by the People's Republic of China. The Chinese Wikipedia was already blocked on June 4. Related news coverage is at Wikipedia:Press coverage; see also the mailing list discussions [8].
The addition of a third Squid cache, maurus, seems to have improved system performance.

June 11, 2004

Server will be down for maintenance from 18:00 to 18:30 UTC. Reason: "To reboot Zwinger with an updated kernel which will fix the disk driver. This should improve performance; as the main file (not database) server the sluggish disk is a bottleneck." as per [9].

June 8, 2004

Wikipedia sites were offline for about 36 hours due to a database crash [10] [11]. Very little data has been lost, just time.

June 5, 2004

Jimbo met a group of Wikipedians in person for the first time ever in London today. He spoke for an hour and a half about current Wikimedia issues, the Wiki~~holics~~pedians socialised and we had a Wikipedia quiz. Then we went to the pub. More at WikiMeet.

June 4, 2004

Jimbo met Arno Lagrange ✉ in person for the first ever international meeting between two wikipedians.

Number of article milestones

Milestone	Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
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); Russian (18 September 2024); Spanish (2 January 2025)
1,000,000	Italian (22 January 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); Persian (22 April 2024)
500,000	Catalan (11 March 2016); Serbian (14 January 2018); Norwegian (Bokmål) (2 January 2019); Indonesian (14 August 2019); Korean (14 June 2020); Finnish (28 December 2020); Hungarian (16 February 2022); Czech (16 March 2022); Turkish (8 July 2022); Chechen (6 November 2022); Tatar (21 April 2023); Romanian (27 October 2024)
200,000	Kazakh (29 November 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); Croatian (6 November 2018); Estonian (12 August 2019); South Azerbaijani (20 March 2020); Lithuanian (13 June 2020); Belarusian (31 December 2020); Greek (27 November 2021); Simple English (16 December 2021); Welsh (12 September 2022); Uzbek (26 November 2022); Galician (27 October 2023); Urdu (7 January 2024); Azerbaijani (10 May 2024)
100,000	Slovene (15 August 2010); Hindi (30 August 2011); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (9 April 2013); Latin (18 December 2013); Georgian (12 October 2015); Thai (30 January 2016); Tamil (8 May 2017); Macedonian (27 April 2019); Tajik (18 December 2019); Asturian (25 January 2020); Cantonese (12 August 2020); Bengali (25 December 2020); Burmese (1 January 2021); Afrikaans (8 September 2021); Ladin (12 February 2023); Telugu (26 September 2024); Albanian (29 September 2024)
50,000	Haitian (12 August 2008); Newar / Nepal Bhasa (15 April 2009); Occitan (30 October 2011); Piedmontese (31 December 2011); Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) (6 August 2013); Latvian (17 August 2013); Bosnian (28 April 2014); Breton (9 July 2014); Malagasy (29 December 2014); Kyrgyz (18 December 2015); Malayalam (2 May 2017); Javanese (7 May 2017); Luxembourgish (10 September 2017); Marathi (22 December 2017); 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); Kurdish (27 August 2021); Lombard (8 December 2021); Chuvash (17 October 2022); West Frisian (21 December 2022); Punjabi (29 May 2023); Central Kurdish / Sorani (8 June 2023); Ido (22 August 2024); Hausa (17 September 2024); Mazandarani (24 December 2024)
20,000	Volapük (23 June 2007); Bishnupriya Manipuri (16 August 2007); Tagalog (1 November 2008); Aragonese (4 April 2010); Gujarati (1 June 2011); Yoruba (3 July 2011); Nepali (7 May 2012); Sicilian (27 October 2012); Scots (17 January 2014); Alemannic (12 October 2015); Kannada (12 March 2016); Bavarian (20 July 2016); Quechua (15 February 2017); Interlingua (1 April 2017); Wu (8 June 2019); Zazaki (14 June 2020); Kotava (15 February 2022); Navajo (25 February 2022); Crimean Tatar (27 August 2022); Mingrelian (10 April 2023); Balinese (23 August 2023); Igbo (28 October 2023); North Frisian (27 October 2024); Pashto (28 November 2024); Gilaki (17 December 2024)
10,000	Neapolitan (20 June 2006); Walloon (20 March 2008); Samogitian (7 April 2009); Buginese (8 November 2011); Banyumasan (10 January 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); Min Dong (12 June 2017); Emiliano-Romagnolo (15 May 2018); Meadow Mari (29 May 2018); Sindhi (1 July 2018); Classical Chinese (28 October 2019); Acehnese (8 November 2019); Central Bikol (23 March 2020); Ligurian (22 March 2021); Shan (16 November 2021); Meitei (30 November 2021); Assamese (13 February 2022); Western Armenian (17 April 2022); Interlingue (25 May 2022); Banjar (14 November 2022); Hakka (20 November 2022); Shona (30 December 2022); Khmer (16 March 2023); Tumbuka (10 April 2023); Somali (29 June 2023); Santali (17 November 2023); Moroccan Arabic (18 April 2024); Dagbani (15 August 2024); Kapampangan (29 October 2024); Standard Moroccan Amazigh (24 November 2024)
5,000	Tarantino (2 August 2007); Maori (10 September 2007); Nahuatl (5 September 2008); 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); Turkmen (27 August 2015); Sardinian (24 October 2015); Veps (28 December 2015); Kashubian (11 April 2016); Northern Sotho (1 November 2016); Komi (11 March 2017); Erzya (12 February 2018); Abkhazian (22 July 2019); Manx (9 March 2020); Kabyle (15 November 2020); Zulu (15 November 2020); Picard (6 December 2020); Udmurt (20 January 2021); Uyghur (8 April 2021); Franco-Provençal/Arpitan (11 May 2021); Aymara (9 October 2021); Cornish (17 November 2021); Saraiki (17 April 2022); Zeelandic (7 July 2022); Maltese (5 November 2022); Guarani (19 November 2022); Inari Sami (16 February 2023); Kinyarwanda (21 March 2023); Moksha (17 April 2024); Karakalpak (25 April 2024); Kashmiri (27 April 2024); Fula (11 October 2024)
2,000	Norman (14 November 2006); Friulian (22 April 2007); Pali (7 June 2007); Divehi (28 December 2007); Romansh (29 January 2008); Ladino (3 July 2009); Ripuarian (5 November 2009); Anglo-Saxon (5 April 2010); Komi-Permyak (11 June 2011); Saterland Frisian (3 December 2011); Extremaduran (27 December 2011); Gagauz (1 September 2012); Lingala (6 January 2013); Mirandese (18 September 2013); Lower Sorbian (15 April 2014); Lezgian (8 June 2014); Zamboanga Chavacano (12 June 2014); Pangasinan (31 January 2015); Palatinate German (15 March 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); Gorontalo (1 February 2019); Tuvan (7 March 2020); Awadhi (1 June 2020); Papiamentu (11 September 2020); Atayal (1 April 2021); Sakizaya (24 October 2021); Zhuang (9 November 2021); Ingush (30 March 2022); Twi (4 July 2022); Pa'O (26 October 2022); Luganda (15 February 2023); Pennsylvania German (29 March 2023); Talysh (31 August 2023); Tongan (14 October 2023); Tulu (3 February 2024); Xhosa (17 April 2024); Fon (31 July 2024); Ghanaian Pidgin (2 October 2024); Komering (5 October 2024)
1,000	Lojban (26 August 2009); Wolof (27 August 2009); Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (21 October 2009); Kalmyk (8 May 2010); Tok Pisin (5 March 2011); Lak (24 July 2011); Sranan (26 August 2012); Kabardian (25 April 2013); Tahitian (24 March 2014); Nauruan (13 June 2014); Aromanian (8 October 2014); Novial (29 October 2014); Tetum (20 April 2015); Kongo (21 November 2015); Kikuyu (7 March 2016); Jamaican Patois/Creole (1 June 2016); Bislama (7 April 2017); Kabiye (24 January 2018); Atikamekw (2 February 2019); Guianan Creole (26 January 2020); Fijian (23 August 2020); Latgalian (23 August 2020); Oromo (4 December 2020); Samoan (19 March 2021); Seediq (22 March 2021); Tachelhit/Shilha (31 July 2021); N'Ko (23 September 2021); Altai (3 October 2021); Cherokee (26 October 2021); Nias (31 October 2021); Old Church Slavonic (12 January 2022); Gun (9 August 2022); Tswana (10 December 2022); Chichewa (4 February 2023); Madurese (15 March 2023); Angika (22 March 2023); Amis (30 June 2023); Nigerian Pidgin (24 November 2023); Dagaare (19 December 2023); Tyap (6 May 2024); Sesotho (20 June 2024); Central Dusun (28 August 2024); Kusaal (22 October 2024); Iban (26 October 2024); Swazi (2 November 2024); [[:mos:\|Mooré]] (3 November 2024)

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