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Wikipedia Reaches Half a Million Articles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everything-knockoffs dept.

Faraaz Damji (frazzydee) writes "The English Wikipedia has reached 500,000 full-length articles. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia collaboratively edited by thousands of users worldwide, and the article count has been increasing every day. Thanks to all the users who make it happen, especially the ones who put in hours every day writing to make this invaluable resource that we all love."

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  1. I always find the quantity of non-english articles by tabkey12 · · Score: 3, Informative
    quite amazing - and surely much higher than the proportion of non-english web pages on the internet as a whole:

    For instance, over 200,000 articles in German

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  2. Re:thanks?! what thanks.. by frazzydee · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry about that, the link is Special:Listusers I tried to email the on-duty editor, but they didn't see it on time :-(

  3. Re:How many... by SkinnyPapa · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't know about spam, but none of these are "Stubs". As per TFA: Wikipedia currently has 501783 articles. That number excludes discussion pages, articles without links to other articles, very short ("stub") articles and pages about Wikipedia. Including these, we have 1405147 pages.

  4. Re:What impresses me most ... by LoganAvatar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, believe it or not, instructions for downloading the entire database is located here Which makes me wonder how many of the 500,000 articles are "Wikipedia" articles, or are those not counted?

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  5. Press Release by teslatug · · Score: 3, Informative

    Read the Press Release

  6. I know you were kidding... by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... but the two-letter abbreviations are ISO 639 language names, not (an obsolete) ISO 3166 country code (which also are used as internet domain name suffixes). This is why the English wikipedia is en.wikipedia.org, not us, uk or au. Or nz, I suppose. Languages don't map nicely to countries; there are languages that span many countries (English), countries with more than one official language (Switzerland) and languages with no country (Esperanto).

    In this case, "su" refers to the Sundanese language. You probably wanted to link to the Russian Wikipedia, with ISO-639-2 code 'ru'.

    Happy to help!

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  7. Don't you mean... by Seoulstriker · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your mileage may vary....

    Your kilometerage may vary?

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