Editing History of Wikipedia (section)

====2007====
Wikipedia continued to grow rapidly in 2007, possessing over 5 million registered editor accounts by 13 August.<ref>See the special page: [[Special:Statistics]]: 5,078,036 registered user accounts as of 13 August 2007, excluding anonymous editors who have not created accounts.</ref> The 250 language editions of Wikipedia contained a combined total of 7.5 million articles, totalling 1.74 billion words, by 13 August.<ref>Source: [[Wikipedia:Size comparisons]] as of 13 August 2007</ref> The English Wikipedia gained articles at a steady rate of 1,700 a day,<ref>From around Q3 2006 Wikipedia's growth rate has been approximately linear, source: [[Wikipedia:Statistics]] – new article count by month 2006–2007.</ref> with the wikipedia.org domain name ranked the 10th-busiest in the world. Wikipedia continued to garner visibility in [[:Category:Wikipedia publicity|the press]] – the [[Essjay controversy]] broke out when a prominent member of Wikipedia was found to have lied about his credentials. [[Citizendium]], a competing online encyclopedia, launched publicly. A new trend developed in Wikipedia, with the encyclopedia addressing people whose notability stemmed from being a participant in a news story by adding a redirect from their name to the larger story, rather than creating a distinct biographical article.<ref>e.g., cases such as [[Crystal Mangum]] and Daniel Brandt.</ref>

On 9 September 2007, the English Wikipedia gained its two-millionth article, ''[[El Hormiguero]]''.<ref name="WFpressrelease">{{cite web|url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Reaches_2_Million_Articles |title=English Wikipedia Reaches 2 Million Articles |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708005830/https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Reaches_2_Million_Articles |archive-date=8 July 2017 |website=[[Wikimedia Foundation]] |date=9 September 2007 |access-date=3 June 2012}}</ref> There was some controversy in late 2007 when the [[Volapük Wikipedia]] jumped from 797 to over 112,000 articles, briefly becoming the 15th-largest Wikipedia edition, due to automated stub generation by an enthusiast for the [[Volapük]] constructed language.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 December 2007 |title=Ciekawe wydarzenia w Internecie |url=http://www.pcworld.pl/artykuly/56502/MySpace.kontra.Facebook.html#t_34252 |url-status=live |journal=PC World (Polish) |language=pl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106024950/http://www.pcworld.pl/artykuly/56502/MySpace.kontra.Facebook.html#t_34252 |archive-date=6 November 2013 |access-date=26 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yves Nevelsteen |date=15 September 2007 |title=Volapuko jam superas Esperanton en Vikipedio |url=http://www.liberafolio.org/2007/volapukapedio |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329091247/http://www.liberafolio.org/2007/volapukapedio |archive-date=29 March 2013 |access-date=26 April 2013 |website=Libera Folio |language=eo}}</ref> According to the ''[[MIT Technology Review]]'', the number of regularly active editors on the English-language Wikipedia peaked in 2007 at more than 51,000, and has since been declining.<ref name="MIT">{{Cite journal |last=Simonite |first=Tom |date=22 October 2013 |title=The Decline of Wikipedia |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/10/22/175674/the-decline-of-wikipedia/ |journal=[[MIT Technology Review]] |access-date=6 December 2020 |archive-date=31 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220731083716/https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/10/22/175674/the-decline-of-wikipedia/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In April 2007, Wikipedia Version 0.5 article selection release was published.<ref name="auto1">{{Citation |title=Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team |date=2022-06-12 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team&oldid=1092780181 |work=Wikipedia |language=en |access-date=2022-06-25 |archive-date=7 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707222542/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team&oldid=1092780181 |url-status=live }}</ref>