First, the English Wikipedia had about 640,000 articles at the time your article was published. Not 444,000. Second, Jimmy Wales started Wikipedia under the ownership of Bomis in 2001 - The Wikimedia Foundation was not formed until June of 2003.
If your article had been published on Wikinews, then these errors would have been very quickly corrected before being marked for publication.
Touché!
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