Editing History of Wikipedia (section)

===Edit milestones and projects===
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* On 15 January 2001, the first recorded edit of Wikipedia was performed.
* In December 2002, the first sister project, [[Wiktionary]], was created; aiming to produce a [[dictionary]] and [[thesaurus]] of the words in all languages. It uses the same software as Wikipedia.
* On 22 January 2003, the [[English Wikipedia]] was again [[slashdot effect|slashdotted]] after having reached the '''100,000''' article milestone with the [[Hastings, New Zealand|Hastings]], article. Two days later, the German-language Wikipedia, the largest non-English language version, passed the '''10,000''' article mark.
* On 20 June 2003, the same day that the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] was founded, "[[Wikiquote]]" was created. A month later, "[[Wikibooks]]" was launched. "[[Wikisource]]" was set up towards the end of the year.
* In January 2004, Wikipedia reached the '''200,000'''-article milestone in English with the article on [[Neil Warnock]], and reached '''450,000''' articles for both English and non-English Wikipedias. The next month, the combined article count of the English and non-English reached '''500,000'''.
* On 20 April 2004, the article count of the English Wikipedia reached '''250,000'''.
* On 7 July 2004, the article count of the English Wikipedia reached '''300,000'''.
* On 20 September 2004, Wikipedia's total article count exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles in over 105 languages; the project received a flurry of related attention in the press.<ref>[[meta:PR-1mil-US|One million Wikipedia articles]]</ref> The one millionth article was published in the [[Hebrew Wikipedia]] and discusses the [[flag of Kazakhstan]].
* On 20 November 2004, the article count of the English Wikipedia reached '''400,000'''.
* On 18 March 2005, Wikipedia passed the '''500,000'''-article milestone in English, with [[Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union]] being announced in a [[press release]] as the landmark article.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wikipedia Publishes 500,000th English Article |url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/500k_English_articles |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616193053/http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/500k_English_articles |archive-date=16 June 2010 |access-date=13 April 2010 |publisher=Wikimediafoundation.org}}</ref>
* In May 2005, Wikipedia became the most popular reference website on the Internet according to traffic monitoring company [[Hitwise]], relegating [[Dictionary.com]] to second place.
* On 29 September 2005, the [[English Wikipedia]] passed the '''750,000'''-article mark.
* On 1 March 2006, the [[English Wikipedia]] passed the '''1,000,000'''-article mark, with [[Jordanhill railway station]] being announced on the Main Page as the milestone article.<ref name="milestone_articles">While this article was announced as the milestone on the Main Page, multiple articles qualified due to the continuous creation and deletion of pages on the site.</ref>
* On 8 June 2006, the [[English Wikipedia]] passed the '''1,000'''-featured-article mark, with [[Iranian peoples]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Announces_Thousandth_Featured_Article |title=English Wikipedia Announces Thousandth Featured Article |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708005544/https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Announces_Thousandth_Featured_Article |archive-date=8 July 2017 |website=Wikimedia Foundation |date=8 June 2006 |access-date=21 December 2012}}</ref>
* On 15 August 2006, the Wikimedia Foundation launched [[Wikiversity]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Opening Plenary (transcript) – Wikimania |url=https://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Opening_Plenary_(transcript) |access-date=16 March 2023 |website=wikimania2006.wikimedia.org |language=en |archive-date=16 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316104238/https://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Opening_Plenary_(transcript) |url-status=live }} Jimbo Wales, Wikimania 2006 ([http://www.supload.com/listen?s=SI0OG2vN04i audio] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020184036/http://www.supload.com/listen?s=SI0OG2vN04i |date=20 October 2013}})</ref>
* On 1 September 2006, Wikipedia exceeded '''5,000,000''' articles across all 229 language editions.
* On 24 November 2006, the English Wikipedia passed the '''1,500,000'''-article mark, with [[Kanab ambersnail]] being announced on the Main Page as the milestone article.<ref name="milestone_articles" />
* On 4 April 2007, the first Wikipedia CD selection in English was published as a free download.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Schools Global Citizen Resource from SOS Children |url=http://fixedreference.org/2006-Wikipedia-CD-Selection |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704141459/http://fixedreference.org/2006-Wikipedia-CD-Selection |archive-date=4 July 2008 |access-date=13 April 2010 |publisher=Fixedreference.org}}</ref>
* On 22 April 2007, the English Wikipedia passed the '''1,750,000'''-article mark. [[RAF raid on La Caine HQ]] was the 1,750,000th article.
* On 9 September 2007, the English Wikipedia passed the '''2,000,000'''-article mark. [[El Hormiguero]] was accepted by consensus as the 2,000,000th article.
* On 28 March 2008, Wikipedia exceeded '''10 million''' articles across all 251 language editions.
* On 11 October 2008, the English Wikipedia passed the '''2,500,000'''-article mark. While no attempt was made to officially identify the 2,500,000th article, [[Joe Connor (baseball)]] has been suggested as the possible article.
* On 17 August 2009, the English Wikipedia passed the '''3,000,000'''-article mark, with [[Beate Eriksen]] being announced on the Main Page as the milestone article.
* On 27 December 2009, the [[German Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the second Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 21 September 2010, the [[French Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the third Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 12 December 2010, the English Wikipedia passed the '''3,500,000'''-article mark.
* On 22 November 2011, Wikipedia exceeded '''20 million''' articles across all 282 language editions.
* On 7 November 2011, the [[German Wikipedia]] exceeded '''100 million''' page edits.
* On 24 November 2011, the [[English Wikipedia]] exceeded '''500 million''' page edits.
* On 17 December 2011, the [[Dutch Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the fourth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 13 July 2012, the [[English Wikipedia]] exceeded '''4,000,000''' articles, with [[Ezbet El Borg|Izbat al-Burj]].<ref name=4Million2012/>
* On 22 January 2013, the [[Italian Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the fifth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 11 May 2013, the [[Russian Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the sixth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 16 May 2013, the [[Spanish Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the seventh Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 15 June 2013, the [[Swedish Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the eighth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 25 September 2013, the [[Polish Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the ninth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 21 October 2013, Wikipedia exceeded '''30 million''' articles across all 287 language editions.
* On 17 December 2013, the [[French Wikipedia]] exceeded '''100,000,000''' page edits.
* On 25 April 2014, the English Wikipedia passed the '''4,500,000''' article mark.
* On 8 June 2014, the [[Waray Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the tenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 15 June 2014, the [[Vietnamese Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the eleventh Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 17 July 2014, the [[Cebuano Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the twelfth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 6 September 2015, the [[Swedish Wikipedia]] exceeded '''2,000,000''' articles, becoming the second Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 1 November 2015, the English Wikipedia exceeded '''5,000,000''' articles, with [[Persoonia terminalis]], and it has over 125,000 editors who have made 1 or more edits in the past 30 days.
* On 1 February 2016, the [[Japanese Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the thirteenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 14 February 2016, the [[Cebuano Wikipedia]] exceeded '''2,000,000''' articles, becoming the third Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 29 April 2016, the [[Swedish Wikipedia]] exceeded '''3,000,000''' articles, becoming the third Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 26 May 2016, Wikipedia exceeded '''40 million''' articles across all 293 language editions.
* On 26 September 2016, the [[Cebuano Wikipedia]] exceeded '''3,000,000''' articles, becoming the fourth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 19 November 2016, the [[German Wikipedia]] exceeded '''2,000,000''' articles, becoming the fifth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 3 March 2017, the [[Cebuano Wikipedia]] exceeded '''4,000,000''' articles, becoming the second Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 6 July 2017, the [[Spanish Wikipedia]] exceeded '''100,000,000''' page edits.
* On 15 September 2017, the [[Russian Wikipedia]] exceeded '''100,000,000''' page edits.
* On 27 October 2017, the [[English Wikipedia]] passed the '''5,500,000'''-article mark.
* On 13 April 2018, the [[Chinese Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the fourteenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 27 June 2018, the [[Portuguese Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the fifteenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 8 July 2018, the [[French Wikipedia]] exceeded '''2,000,000''' articles, becoming the fifth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 14 October 2018, the [[Arabic Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the sixteenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 20 January 2019, the [[Spanish Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,500,000''' articles, becoming the seventh Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 1 February 2019, the Wikipedia News recalculated that the [[Italian Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,500,000''' articles, becoming the eighth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 9 March 2019, Wikipedia exceeded '''50 million''' articles across all 309 language editions.
* On 2 August 2019, the [[South Azerbaijani Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' page edits.
* On 17 November 2019, the [[Arabic Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the eighteenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 23 January 2020, the English Wikipedia exceeded '''6,000,000''' articles, with [[Maria Elise Turner Lauder]] as the milestone article.
* On 9 March 2020, the [[Dutch Wikipedia]] exceeded '''2,000,000''' articles, becoming the sixth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 23 March 2020, the [[Ukrainian Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the seventeenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 1 July 2020, the [[Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' articles, becoming the eighteenth Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 25 December 2020, the [[Bengali Wikipedia]] exceeded '''100,000''' articles.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Research:A Brief Analysis of Bengali Wikipedia's Journey to 100,000 Articles – Meta |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:A_Brief_Analysis_of_Bengali_Wikipedia%E2%80%99s_Journey_to_100,000_Articles/en#cite_note-100K-5 |access-date=5 March 2022 |website=meta.wikimedia.org |language=en |archive-date=19 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319233514/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:A_Brief_Analysis_of_Bengali_Wikipedia%E2%80%99s_Journey_to_100,000_Articles/en#cite_note-100K-5 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* On 3 February 2021, the [[Malagasy Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,000,000''' page edits.
* On 4 February 2021, the [[English Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1 billion''' page edits.
* On 14 October 2021, the [[Cebuano Wikipedia]] exceeded '''6,000,000''' articles, becoming the second Wikipedia language edition to do so.
* On 14 December 2021, the [[Polish Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,500,000''' articles, becoming the twelfth Wikipedia language edition to do so.<ref name=:3 />
* On 26 December 2021, the [[Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia]] exceeded '''1,500,000''' articles.<ref name=:3 />
* On 19 January 2022, the [[Indonesian Wikipedia]] exceeded '''20 million''' page edits.
* On 17 October 2022, The [[Norwegian Wikipedia]] exceeded '''600,000''' articles.<ref name=:3>{{cite web |website=meta.wikipedia.org |title=Wikipedia News/2022 |url=https://meta.m.wikipedia.org |access-date=26 August 2023}}</ref>
* On 27 November 2022, Wikipedia exceeded '''60 million''' articles across all 329 language editions.<ref name=2x>{{cite web |website=meta.wikipedia.org |title=Wikipedia News/2022 |url=https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News/2022 |access-date=15 August 2023 |language=en |quote=Wikipedia has reached 60,000,000 articles across all 329 languages.}}</ref>