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German Wikipedia Passes One Million Article Mark

Posted by timothy on from the but-now-they-use-euros dept.

saibot834 writes "The German Wikipedia, the second largest language edition behind the English Wikipedia, just reached its 1,000,000 article milestone. Combined with 3.1M English articles and 240 other language editions, this adds up to a total of 14 million Wikipedia articles. Interestingly, there is a request for deletion on the millionth article. German Wikipedia has been criticized for its rules on notability, which are stricter than on the English Wikipedia. Quality though, is often considered to be higher on the German Wikipedia."

5 of 106 comments (clear)

  1. Citation Needed by iammani · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quality though, is often considered to be higher on the German Wikipedia

    Citation Needed

    1. Re:Citation Needed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Quality though, is often considered to be higher on the German Wikipedia

      Citation Needed

      "you know the Germans always make good stuff"

  2. Re:Stricter Rules? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does this mean the German editors are nicer and less bureaucratic than the possessive assholes who consider English wikipedia their personal creation, or should we expect to see German wikipedia go down in flames sooner than later?

    Do you mean that the German Wikipedia has less WikiNazis?

  3. shouldn't that be one million article Euro? by sir_eccles · · Score: 1, Funny

    They got rid of the Mark ages ago.

  4. Another 662k articles by Foobar+of+Borg · · Score: 5, Funny

    They could add another 662k articles if they would simple annex pl.wikipedia.org

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