It does seem appropriate that this milestone was reached during Wikimania. Does anyone have a listing of when the other "million" milestones were reached?

There is also a discussion here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#4.2C000.2C000th_article

Carcharoth

On 7/13/12, Tanvir Rahman wikitanvir@gmail.com wrote:

Just a note, today, English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone. Stay up forever old buddy! :-D

\o o// \o/ /o\

And today is the second day of Wikimania! Surely they have something new to celebrate and brag about now! :-D

Regards, Tanvir

-- Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:

On 7/13/12 5:31 PM, Carcharoth wrote:

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Does anyone have a listing of when the other "million" milestones were reached?

1 million, March 1, 2006 http://wikimediafoundation.**org/wiki/Press_releases/** English_Wikipedia_Publishes_**Millionth_Articlehttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Publishes_Millionth_Article

2 million, September 9, 2007 http://wikimediafoundation.**org/wiki/Press_releases/** Wikipedia_Reaches_2_Million_**Articleshttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Reaches_2_Million_Articles

3 million, August 17, 2009 There doesn't seem to be an archived press release on wikimediafoundation.org for this one, but see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/**technology/blog/2009/aug/17/** wikipedia-three-millionhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/aug/17/wikipedia-three-million

-Mark

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