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English Wikipedia Reaches 3 Million Articles

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the next-version-will-have-140-char-limit dept.

FunPika writes "It has taken more than eight years and the work of vast numbers of people around the world, but the English version of Wikipedia has finally amassed more than three million articles. The site broke through the 3 million barrier early on Monday morning UK time, with the honors taken by a short article about Norwegian actor Beate Eriksen — a 48-year-old cast member of a popular local soap opera."

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  1. And then it was proptly deleted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The site broke through the 3 million barrier, with the honors taken by a short article about Norwegian actor Beate Eriksen

    And then the Wiki editors quickly deleted this article for being not important enough.

    1. Re:And then it was proptly deleted by FlyingSquidStudios · · Score: 5, Funny

      Fun from the talk page. A Wiki language geek "honored" the article by translating it into Anglo-Saxon for the Anglo-Saxon language version of Wikipedia. Because if there's one language that Wikipedia needs to be translated in, it's one that no one actually speaks anymore. http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beate_Eriksen

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    2. Re:And then it was proptly deleted by A.+B3ttik · · Score: 5, Funny

      What's even funnier is comparing the relative lengths of related articles:

      For instance:

      Pokemon compared to Animal
      Wizard compared to Scientist
      Afghan Civil War compared to Marvel Civil War
      Emperor Palpatine compared to Emperor Charles IV
      Klingon Language compared to Mandarin Chinese

  2. And that's... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    And for those of you keeping track, that's roughly 50,000 non-Manga/anime/Simpson's related articles.

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  3. Crazy but true. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Beate Eriksen (who?) will be more famous for being the 3,000,000th wiki article than for his acting skills.

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