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보낸 사람: Matthew Roth <mroth(a)wikimedia.org>
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Hi all,
Here's the blog post on the 4 millionth article:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/13/english-wikipedia-crosses-4-million-ar…
There were a number of contributions from an anonymous editor and from The ed17, Signpost
editor.
English Wikipedia crosses 4 million article milestone
Posted by Matthew Roth on July 13th, 2012
Wikipedia has succeeded through the dedication of its volunteer editors, who have
created over 22 million articles across 285 language Wikipediasin just eleven years.
Today, the English Wikipedia, the largest of the Wikipedias, celebrated its four millionth
article, a remarkable milestone.
The four millionth article was Izbat Al Burj (عزبة البرج), a city in theDamietta
Governorate in Egypt, with a population of 70,000. Within a few hours, the article had
over 50 edits and was expanded from a short entry to one with several citations and
multiple maps.
The article was written by volunteer editor Mohammed Farag (محمد فرج), an active
Wikipedian on Arabic and English Wikipedia. Farag, whose user name on-wiki is Meno25,
lives in Alexandria, Egypt.
“I am proud that I helped Wikipedia to reach 4 million articles and become the largest
encyclopedia in the world,” Farag wrote in an email. “With about only 20,000 good and
featured articles, I believe that all of us Wikipedians should concentrate more on the
quality of the encyclopedia rather on the number of its articles.”
Though 4 million articles is a very large number, there is still a great deal of work to
be done. There are new topics emerging each day which deserve coverage, and in a best case
scenario, the great majority of Wikipedia articles could do with some improvement. About
20,000 articles out of these four million have been given ”good article” or ”featured
article” status, which are assessment grades given by editors based on comprehensiveness,
research quality, and writing style. They are awarded to articles only after they undergo
a peer review process.
English Wikipedia celebrated the one millionth article on 1 March 2006 (Jordanhill railway
station), and reached the 2 million milestone on 9 September 2007 (El Hormiguero) and 3
million on 16 August 2009 (Beate Eriksen). The German Wikipedia reached one million
articles on 27 December 2009, the French Wikipedia on 21 September 2010, and the Dutch
Wikipedia on 17 December 2011. The Italian, Spanish and Polish Wikipedias are all near the
1 million article mark as well.
On projects that see thousands and thousands of edits an hour, where articles are
regularly created and other articles are deleted, it can be challenging to precisely
pinpoint which article is exactly the 4 millionth. Other articles created around the same
time as Izbat Al Burj (عزبة البرج) include Idaho State Highway 48, the Siersza Power
Station in Poland, ”Mushtum,” an Uzbek humor magazine, Albert C. Baker, an early
20th-century American judge, Brazilian cruiser ”Rio Grande do Sul”, an early 20th-century
warship, and Intelsat 605, a satellite launched in 1991.
Wikipedia, and the other Wikimedia Foundation projects, aim to provide accurate and useful
information to every person around the globe. This is being accomplished by the generous
support of volunteers who provide their time, knowledge and expertise to the projects.
While we celebrate what is certainly a major milestone, we hope you’ll join our community
and help improve Wikipedia and its sister projects.
Matthew Roth, Global Communications Manager
With significant contributions from The ed17 and an unregistered user, who helped with the
early drafts
Copyright notes: "Izbat Al Borg enwp screenshot" by Wikipedians, under CC-BY-SA
3.0 Unported, from Wikimedia Commons
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Matthew Roth
Global Communications
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