[Sigia-l] FW: Wikipedia Reaches One Million Articles

[Eric Scheid]

This is a significant milestone for online information sharing, and online
culture in general I believe. The significant difference from eg.
<http://www.dmoz.org> is that "Everything is peer-reviewed in real time".

Wikipedia Reaches One Million Articles
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_press_releases/One_million_Wikiped
ia_articles_(US)/Print>

   The Wikimedia Foundation announced today (24 Sep 2004) the creation of
   the one millionth article in Wikipedia, its project to create a free,
   open-content, online encyclopedia (Wikipedia.org ). Started in January
   2001, Wikipedia is currently the world's largest and fastest growing
   encyclopedia, with articles under active development in over 100
   languages. Nearly 2,500 new articles are added to Wikipedia each day,
   along with ten times that number of updates to existing articles.
   Wikipedia now ranks as one of the ten most popular reference sites on
   the Internet, according to Alexa.com (http://www.alexa.com). It is
   increasingly used as a resource by students, journalists, and anyone who
   needs a starting point for research. Wikipedia's rate of growth has
   continued to increase in recent months, and at its current pace
   Wikipedia will double in size again by next spring.

Wikipedia is at <http://en.wikipedia.org>