Hi all, Happy to announce that I just sent the following press release out detailing our 10 millionth article... which was a new article in the Hungarian Wikipedia. More details below. Thanks! -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609 --- Wikipedia breaks the ten million article mark across all languages Ten million articles in under seven years San Francisco, California March 24, 2008 – Earlier this week the Wikimedia Foundation reached a significant new milestone: on Thursday, March 27, at 00:07 UTC the official article count for all Wikipedias combined reached 10 million. The ten millionth article, a short biography of 16th century painter Nicholas Hilliard was created in the Hungarian Wikipedia user Pataki Márta. Wikipedia now boasts articles in over 250 languages, with the highest article counts in the top ten Wikipedias: English, German, French, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. We are also experiencing rapid growth in many young Wikipedias, including Marathi, Tagalog, and Cantonese. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation remarked on the occasion of this milestone, "It's incredible to think that we've grown from one Wikipedia in English to over 150 active language Wikipedias. Ten million articles is something we could never have imagined happening so fast when we embarked on Wikipedia in 2001. This is a testament to the incredible dedication of our volunteers from all corners of the planet." In December 2007, the German magazine Stern announced in an independent study of 50 articles that the German Wikipedia was more accurate, complete and up-to-date than the longstanding print encyclopedia Brockhaus. In March 2007, a study conducted by the Hewlett Packard Information Dynamics Laboratory found that the best articles on the English Wikipedia are those that have been edited the most frequently, by the largest number of people. It concluded that the correlation between article quality and the number of edits validates Wikipedia as a successful collaborative effort. Similar studies around the world continue to point to the increasing accuracy and quality of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that is written, edited and maintained by a global community of thousands of volunteers. Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, a charitable, non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California. About Wikipedia The goal of the Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia in history, is to create free encyclopedias in all languages of the world. Anyone with Internet access is free to contribute by writing new articles and editing existing articles. Wikipedia is consistently ranked one of the top ten most visited websites in the world by Alexa, serving billions of page views every month. Wikipedia started in January 2001, and currently offers over ten million articles in over 250 languages. The largest Wikipedia is in English, with more than 2.2 million articles; followed by the German and French editions, each of which contain more than six million articles. Nine other language editions contain 200,000+ articles, and more than 150 other languages contain 1,000+ articles. Wikipedia is entirely created and maintained by a community of active volunteers. About the Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of its wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. It operates some of the largest collaboratively-edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the world's 10 most-visited websites. For a full list of projects, visit http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects All projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are collaboratively developed by volunteers using the MediaWiki software. Their content may be freely used, freely edited, freely copied and freely redistributed subject to the restrictions of that license. More information Wikipedia's 10 Millionth article (via Wikipedia Hungary), An English version of the article can be found at, Wikipedia Statistics, Press inquiries: jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org +1 415-839-6885 Wikipedia Hungary press contact: Peter Gervai press(a)wikipedia.hu Regional press contacts in other languages can be found at _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l