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Wikipedia Reaches 100,000th Article

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cdrom-size-archives-would-be-nice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'Wikipedia, a community-built multilingual encyclopedia, is announcing that the English edition of the project has reached a milestone of 100,000 articles in development. In addition, the project itself has celebrated its two-year anniversary on January 15. But not just the English version has grown impressively: More than 37,000 articles are now being worked on in the non-English editions of Wikipedia.' Read the press release for more information or visit the website to enlighten yourself! It's great to see that this interactive project works; at least I don't have to boot into Windows to use Encarta anymore!"

5 of 201 comments (clear)

  1. I wouldn't throw Encarta away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It may become usefull now that the site is mentioned at /.

  2. from the Wikipedia page on "Slashdotting" by imag0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wikipedia has been "slashdotted", July 26, 2001.

    Oops, looks like that one will have to get updated.

    1. Re:from the Wikipedia page on "Slashdotting" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Updated. Of course, anybody could have done that. Thus the power of Wikipedia.

  3. Amazingly fast updating by csnydermvpsoft · · Score: 4, Funny

    Their page on slashdotting already includes the following:

    Wikipedia has been "slashdotted" on July 26, 2001 and January 22, 2003.

    Talk about timely information!

  4. Re:Then compare them both to E2... by jaavaaguru · · Score: 2, Funny
    New slashdot poll:

    Your preferred reference...
    • Encarta
    • Wikipedia
    • Everything2
    • CowboyNeal's Diary
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