Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 20, 2004 @08:51PM from the and-hits-it-hard dept.

Sir Homer writes "The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia. Started in January 2001, Wikipedia is currently both the world's largest encyclopedia and fastest-growing, with articles under active development in over 100 languages. Nearly 2,500 new articles are added to Wikipedia each day, along with ten times that number of updates to existing articles. Wikipedia now ranks as one of the ten most popular reference sites on the Internet, according to Alexa.com. It is increasingly used as a resource by students, journalists, and anyone who needs a starting point for research. Wikipedia's rate of growth has continued to increase in recent months, and at its current pace Wikipedia will double in size again by next spring." stevejobsjr writes "Wikipedia needs our help. The Wikipedia project has no ads, and is run completely by volunteers. Still, it takes money to run such an amazing resource, and so they are running a fundraiser. The goal is to raise $50,000."

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Re:Awesome! by Soylent+Moose · 2004-09-21 00:46 · Score: 0, Troll

After reading the comments on /. about Wikipedia, I thought it would be interesting to see what Wikipedia says about slashdot. It starts...
Slashdot (frequently abbreviated online as "/.") is a popular technology-oriented weblog, primarily consisting of short summaries of stories on other websites with links to the stories that support the editor's left wing and anti-american opinions, and provisions for readers to comment on the story.

"Anti-american," eh? Who knew...