Wikipedia Recent Announcements

21 March 2008

:Category:Living people passed 260,000 articles (200,000 were reached on 14 June 2007 and 90,000 on 11 May 2006).

6 November 2007

WikiProject Lakes reached 4,000 articles with infobox lake.

21 October

WikiProject Mountains reached 4,000 articles with Infobox Mountain.

9 September

The English Wikipedia article count passed 2.0 million. The official two millionth article by consensus is El Hormiguero.

22 July

The English Wikipedia article count passed 1.9 million.

14 June

:Category:Living people reached 200,000 biography articles (90,000 on 11 May 2006)

25 May

The English Wikipedia article count passed 1.8 million.

22 March

The English Wikipedia article count passed 1.7 million.

21 February

Wikipedia's daily Alexa ranking hit 8 for the first time, a new high. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page&site1=&site2=&site3=&site4=&y=t&z=1&h=400&w=700&range=3m&size=Large&url=en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

11 January

The English Wikipedia’s revision counter, indicating the total number of edits, has passed 100,000,000.

7 January

Wikipedia's weekly Alexa ranking hit 10 for the first time. Meanwhile, its daily ranking hit 9, a new high.

3 January

Wikipedia's daily Alexa ranking hit 10 again today. Of the total traffic to all Wikipedia sites, the share attributable to en: has now fallen to 54%, demonstrating the rapid growth of the many other Wikipedia language editions, while growth in en: continues unchecked.

2 January

Wikipedia entered 2007 with over 6 million articles in 251 languages, 1560143 of them in English. During 2006, the English Wikipedia contributed 666,906 of the almost 3 million new articles project-wide, which almost doubled in 12 months. Full statistics are now available.