Wikipedia:Milestones
Wikipedia:Milestones
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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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31 October 2017
WikiProject Journalism now includes 40 or more featured articles.
26 October 2017
WikiProject Religion now includes 70 or more good articles.
25 October 2017
WikiProject Religion now includes 160 or more good articles.
20 October 2017
WikiProject Somerset now includes 30 or more featured list articles.
14 October 2017
WikiProject Japan now includes 300 or more good articles.
11 August 2017
WikiProject Novels now includes 70 or more featured articles.
1 August 2017
WikiProject Theatre now includes 40 or more featured articles.
24 July 2017
WikiProject Oregon now includes 40 or more featured articles.
12 July 2017
WikiProject Popular Culture now includes 60 or more B-Class articles.
10 July 2017
WikiProject Conservatism now includes 60 or more good articles.
4 July 2017
WikiProject North America now covers 4000 or more articles in total.
1 July 2017
WikiProject Christianity now includes 160 or more featured articles.
8 June 2017
WikiProject Comedy now includes 75 or more featured articles.
1 June 2017
WikiProject College football now includes 50 or more good articles.
31 May 2017
WikiProject College football now includes 300 or more good articles.
12 April 2017
WikiProject Television now includes 200 or more featured list articles.
28 March 2017
WikiProject Conservatism now covers 6000 or more articles in total.
24 February 2017
WikiProject National Basketball Association now includes 100 or more good articles.
8 February 2017
WikiProject Theatre now includes 60 or more good articles.
WikiProject Conservatism now includes 35 or more featured articles.
27 January 2017
Wikiproject Popular Culture now includes 5 or more featured articles.
14 January 2017
WikiProject Islam now includes 60 or more good articles.
8 January 2017
Wikiproject Popular Culture now includes 25 or more good articles.
18 December 2016
WikiProject Television now includes 150 or more featured articles.
30 October 2016
WikiProject Ohio now includes 50 or more featured articles.
8 October 2016
WikiProject East Asia now covers 1500 or more articles in total.
2 October 2016
WikiProject Religion now includes 60 or more featured articles.
25 September 2016
WikiProject Norway now includes 20 or more featured articles.
15 September 2016
WikiProject North America now covers 3500 or more articles in total.
5 September 2016
WikiProject College football now includes 35 or more featured articles.
23 August 2016
WikiProject The Beatles now includes 125 or more good articles.
19 August 2016
WikiProject Films now includes 900 or more good articles.
20 June 2016
WikiProject Buddhism now includes 30 or more good articles.
24 April 2016
WikiProject Novels now includes 60 or more featured articles.
22 April 2016
WikiProject College football now includes 250 or more good articles.
9 March 2016
- Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino becomes the 5,100,000th article
27 January 2016
WikiProject Buddhism now includes 10 or more featured articles.
25 January 2016
WikiProject Journalism now includes 35 or more featured articles.
7 December 2015
WikiProject Religion now includes 140 or more good articles.
18 November 2015
Wikiproject Popular Culture now includes 20 or more good articles.
11 November 2015
WikiProject Vital Articles now includes 100 or more good articles.
1 November 2015
English Wikipedia hits 5,000,000th article, Persoonia terminalis.
29 October 2015
WikiProject Gastropods now covers 30,000 articles. JoJan (talk) 14:29, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
28 October 2015
WikiProject North America now covers 3000 or more articles in total.
13 October 2015
WikiProject Islam now includes 50 or more good articles.
12 October 2015
WikiProject Lakes now includes 20 or more good articles.
11 October 2015
WikiProject North America now covers 2500 or more articles in total.
9 October 2015
WikiProject North America now covers 1500 or more articles in total.
21 September 2015
WikiProject Russia now includes 70 or more featured articles.
13 September 2015
WikiProject Conservatism now covers 5500 or more articles in total.
5 September 2015
Swedish Wikipedia hits 2,000,000th article
26 August 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 146 or more good articles.
21 August 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 20 or more featured articles.
30 July 2015
WikiProject North America now includes 5 or more good articles.
16 July 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 30 or more good articles.
15 July 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 25 or more featured list articles.
24 June 2015
WikiProject Films now includes 800 or more good articles.
13 May 2015
WikiProject North America now covers 1000 or more articles in total.
7 April 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 25 or more good articles.
6 April 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 20 or more featured list articles.
1 April 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 20 or more good articles.
31 March 2015
WikiProject Somerset now includes 125 or more good articles.
16 February 2015
WikiProject Oregon now includes 150 or more good articles.
13 February 2015
WikiProject Television now includes 2000 or more good articles.
24 January 2015
WikiProject Films now includes 700 or more good articles.
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) |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| 1,000,000 | Italian (22 January 2013); Russian (11 May 2013); Spanish (16 May 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) |
| 200,000 | Romanian (5 August 2012); 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) |
| 100,000 | Slovene (15 August 2010); Hindi (30 August 2011); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (9 April 2013); Latin (18 December 2013); Georgian (12 October 2015); Azerbaijani (29 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) |
| 50,000 | Haitian (12 August 2008); Newar / Nepal Bhasa (15 April 2009); Occitan (30 October 2011); Piedmontese (31 December 2011); Telugu (13 March 2012); Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa) (6 August 2013); Latvian (17 August 2013); Albanian (11 October 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) |
| 20,000 | Volapük (23 June 2007); Bishnupriya Manipuri (16 August 2007); Tagalog (1 November 2008); Aragonese (4 April 2010); Ido (23 August 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); Hausa (24 December 2022); Mingrelian (10 April 2023); Balinese (23 August 2023); Igbo (28 October 2023) |
| 10,000 | Neapolitan (20 June 2006); Walloon (20 March 2008); Samogitian (7 April 2009); Buginese (8 November 2011); Banyumasan (10 January 2012); Mazandarani (30 August 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); Pashto (28 May 2010); 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) |
| 5,000 | Tarantino (2 August 2007); Maori (10 September 2007); Kapampangan (1 April 2008); Nahuatl (5 September 2008); Gilaki (30 April 2009); 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); North Frisian (3 July 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); Dagbani (17 November 2022); Guarani (19 November 2022); Inari Sami (16 February 2023); Kinyarwanda (21 March 2023); Moksha (17 April 2024); Karakalpak (25 April 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); Kashmiri (28 August 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); Standard Moroccan Amazigh (24 March 2024); Fula (30 March 2024); Xhosa (17 April 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); Ghanaian Pidgin (19 March 2024); Fon (30 March 2024) |