maru dubshinki wrote:
It's still wrong then; to my withered and weary eyes, if you follow the article line to the top where it ends, it is vastly closer to 3M than 2.6M.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm
According to the stas, all Wikipediae in different languages had 2.9 Million articles at the end of November 2005.
One can assume that by the x>200 char-count, all the different languages (and dialects...) have now more than 3M articles.
200chars in an ideographic language might be totally different in the number of information than, hmm, lets say Finnish. It also does not include the number of "List of Something, sorted by something else"-articles, which happen to populate some editions. While they might or might not be useful (or redundant (even if you consider the possibiliies from the Semantic Mediawiki hack)), it is very hard to consider them articles.
So all in all: When a journalist asks me "How many articles do all the wikipedias have?", I feel comfortable to answer "about 3 million".
Mathias