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Wikipedia Reaches 1,000,000 Articles
AndrewRUK writes "At 23:09 UTC, the one-millionth article was created in the English-language Wikipedia. The milestone was reached with the creation of an article about Jordanhill railway station in Scotland. Congratulations to all the Wikipedians, especially Nach0king who wrote the millionth article and Mészáros András who in November 2004 correctly predicted that it would be created today."
Yes, but how many are stubs or redirects[...]?
Over 2.5 million. The Statistics page only counts real articles, which they define as a non-redirect, main namespace page with at least one link to another page.
The article count jumped from 999,990 to 1,000,150 in one second. I never saw anything like it. Luckily, the devs were doing a dump and were able to sort out which one had won. By the numbers:
* 999,996 Bobby Smith (baseball player)
* 999,997 Temporal coding
* 999,998 Steve Cox
* 999,999 One million articles
* 1,000,000 Jordanhill railway station
* 1,000,001 Squidoo
* 1,000,002 Tennessee Commissioner of Financial Institutions
* 1,000,003 Aaron Ledesma
* 1,000,004 Cellular architecture
If it makes the GP poster feel any better, 999,999 was a joke.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
I have a paid subscription to britannica.com. I don't ever use it because of wikipedia. Quite simply the articles on wiki ae:
1) longer
2) more in depth
3) have better links for follow up
4) over a wider range of topics
Every time I look something up in EB I find it doesn't have the information I'm looking for. About 20% of the time wikipedia has the information and another 30% or so it has high quality links that get me the information.