Ukrainian Wikipedia Reaches 250,000 Article Milestone
Congratulations to Ukrainian Wikipedia on reaching 250,000 articles! The milestone article was officially created on Tuesday, December 21 at 8:45pm, Kyiv Time by user Anatoliy-024. Anatoily-024, a...
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More Than 300 Events Celebrating Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary
We’re only a few days away from celebrating Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary on Saturday, January 15th, and today the Wikimedia Foundation has officially announced it to the world. Recently, I let you know...
View ArticleWikipedia 10 hits the headlines
Today we’ve seen a wide range of media outlets around the world cover the news about Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary. Some stories recount the history of the project from its humble beginnings, and...
View ArticleHappy 10th anniversary, Wikipedia!
Ten years ago today, Jimmy Wales typed Hello World! into a wiki, and Wikipedia was born. Today, Wikipedia’s the fifth most-popular site on the internet, and the only site in the top 25 that provides a...
View ArticleA Decade of Thanks!
People throughout the world are gathering at more than 450 events in 120 countries to celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th birthday. I’m amazed and thrilled and humbled by the significant support Wikipedia has...
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Ten million free media files and counting
A waterfowl observation platform by Lipno Lake in the Wdzydze Landscape Park Ten is turning out to be the number of the year for Wikimedia. First, the Wikimedia Foundation celebrated the tenth...
View ArticleAsteroid Shower Helps Propel Hungarian Wikipedia to 200,000 Articles at Warp...
Growing at a steady pace of about 100 articles a day, the Hungarian Wikipedia was recently propelled into warp-speed by a shower of 350 articles about asteroids, helping the encyclopedia hit a 200K...
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165,000 Photos Submitted During Second Annual Wiki Loves Monuments...
Torre de Belém, Portugal. Photo: Joaomartinho63 Wiki Loves Monuments was a crazy idea: ask people to get out of their houses and take a picture of the cultural heritage around them, of monuments...
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1 million media files uploaded using Upload Wizard
In May 2011, we announced a new way to share pictures, sounds, and video: the Upload Wizard. A year later, Upload Wizard has been used to upload more than 1 million freely licensed media files and has...
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English Wikipedia crosses 4 million article milestone
A screenshot of the article just after it was created. Wikipedia has succeeded through the dedication of its volunteer editors, who have created over 22 million articles across 285 language Wikipedias...
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Wikimedia Foundation launches Wikivoyage, a free, worldwide travel guide that...
The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the launch of its 12th official project: Wikivoyage, a free, worldwide, online travel guide. Like Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikivoyage is free...
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Italian Wikipedia surpasses one million articles
This post is available in 2 languages: Italiano • English English: (This is a guest post from Maurizio Codogno, Wikimedia Italia) On 9 September 2005, the article Choisy-le-Roi, a French town near...
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Wikimedia projects reach more than 500 million people per month
In the Wikimedia movement, we have a vision statement that inspires many contributions to our endeavor: “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge....
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Spanish Wikipedia surpasses the 1 million article milestone
This post is available in 2 languages: Español • English Español Wikipedia en español supera el millón de artículos Este 16 de mayo de 2013, la comunidad de Wikipedia en español anunció un nuevo...
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Swedish Wikipedia surpasses 1 million articles with aid of article creation bot
On June 15, 2013, Swedish Wikipedia hit one million articles, joining the club of English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish Wikipedias. The article that broke the barrier was the...
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Ten years of supporting free knowledge
Ten years ago today, on June 20, 2003, Jimmy Wales announced the founding of the Wikimedia Foundation. He entrusted the new nonprofit with the operation of Wikipedia, launched two and a half years...
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Will you join in celebrating the 10th anniversary of Wikimedia Commons?
Wikimedia Commons is turning 10 years old this Sunday — will you help celebrate? We’re asking everyone to join the Wikimedia community by sharing a freely licensed image with world. Wikimedia Commons...
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Wikipedia turns 14, receives prestigious Erasmus Prize 2015
Today, Wikipedia turns fourteen years old. On this day in 2001, a simple idea changed the world: the idea that anyone, no matter who they are or where they lived, had something to contribute to the sum...
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Global milestones for November
The English Wikipedia’s five millionth article was reached this month, covering a rare Australian shrub. Photo by Russell Cumming, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. The English Wikipedia this month...
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