On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:13 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: In the Italian Wikipedia we are celebrating the birthday with the milestone of 800,000 articles! http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/800.000_voci Cruccone

On 5/10/2011 4:13 PM, ext phoebe ayers wrote: Joan and Анатолій have mentioned this already but here goes a bit more detail: The first non-English Wikipedia created was the German on March 16, 2001 The first edit on a non-English Wikipedia was at 21:07 UTC, March 16, 2001, made to the Catalan Main Page. The first contribution in a non-English article dates from March 17 at 01:41 UTC in the article http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80bac Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Wikipedia#Creation fwiw I learned all this back in March when the Catalan Wikipedia was celebrating the 10th anniversary with a big banner in all ca.wikipedia.org pages. -- Quim (son of German mother and Catalan father, based in USA)  ;) On 5/11/2011 4:34 AM, ext Анатолій Гончаров wrote:  > German and Catalan wikis was created on March 2001  >  > 2011/5/11<foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>  >  >> Happy birthday.  >>  >>   If you read carefully the mail you are pointing to there it says:  >>  >> "Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix."  >>  >> But in the list there are 11 languages.  >>  >> The difference is because it was not the first group of non-English  >> Wikipedias coming online.