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English Wikipedia Gets Two Millionth Article
reybrujo writes to inform us of a milestone for the English-language Wikipedia: the posting of its two millionth article. At the time of this posting there is uncertainty over which article achieved the milestone. "Initial reports stated that the two millionth article written was El Hormiguero, which covers a Spanish TV comedy show. Later review of this information found that this article was most likely not two million, and instead a revised list of articles created around two million has been generated, and is believed to be correct to within 3 articles. The Wikimedia foundation, which operates the site, is expected to make an announcement with a final decision, which may require review of the official servers' logs."
You might want to take lemmata on controversial subjects like Palestine and the Evolution with a grain of salt,
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Or Afrocentrism, or Scientology, or Han Chauvinism, or Jihad, Islamophobia, or any article relating to politics, religion, history, personalities, art, or any humanities subject. Most of those articles were taken over by partisan propaganda groups and their admin backers a long time ago. Then again, after a few months, another partisan group takes over and changes the article to their propaganda, and the wars continue... Basically the group that can bully others out efficiently wins in these cases.
Articles relating to science and technology (and some trivia if you're into that sort of thing) are generally okay and contain good references and stuff. The rest is cruft.
l'Homme n'est Rien l'Oeuvre Tout: Gustave Flaubert to George Sand
More details of this fiscal conflict of interest, that pads Wikia's pockets with each public relations brouhaha like this:
http://wikipediareview.com/blog/category/wikia/
Dude, where's my packet?