[Wikipl-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] 10M articles in all Wikipedias...

[Przykuta]

Mamy już globalnie 10 M

> 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 w wikimedia.org
> +1 415-839-6885
> 
> Wikipedia Hungary press contact:
> Peter Gervai
> press w wikipedia.hu
> 
> Regional press contacts in other languages can be found at 
> 
> 
> 
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