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== 2012 ==
{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-12|{{News-en/2012-12}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-11|{{News-en/2012-11}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-10|{{News-en/2012-10}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-09|{{News-en/2012-09}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-08|{{News-en/2012-08}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-07|{{News-en/2012-07}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-06|{{News-en/2012-06}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-05|{{News-en/2012-05}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-04|{{News-en/2012-04}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-03|{{News-en/2012-03}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2012-02|'''Telenor and the Wikimedia Foundation partner to offer Wikipedia free to mobile customers in Asia and Southeastern Europe'''<br />
Up to 135 million Telenor customers in Asia and Southeastern Europe with mobile access can access Wikipedia without incurring data charges.
[[Press releases/Telenor_and_WMF_partner_on_Wikipedia_mobile|Read more]] (28 Feb 2012)


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More than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East (AMEA) with mobile access can access Wikipedia with no data charges.
[[Press releases/Orange_and_WMF_partner_on_Wikipedia_mobile|Read more]] (24 Jan 2012)


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=== February 2005 ===


'''Statement from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding developments in Washington on SOPA and PIPA'''<br />
* On February 22, two circuit breakers activating removed power from the Wikimedia servers and led to loss of all service for several hours, loss of editing ability for most of a day and slowness for a week. Uninterruptible power supplies could have reduced the effect of this incident but not all power incidents, because law requires an emergency power off switch and that has caused outages for other sites, most notably a recent one at Liveournal. UPS systems for key systems will be used, if local law allows them.
Comments from Sue Gardner in response to developments in Washington this morning.
[[Press releases/Statement_on_Jan_20_events_in_Washington|Read more]] (20 Jan 2012)


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* The foundation began its second grobal [[Wikimedia needs your help|fundraising drive]] on February 18. It would continue till March 11 or when we reach 75,000 USD - whichever comes first after the first week. The donations exceeded its goal by 26% in ten days. Thanks to all who donated! Details in [[Fund drives/2005/Q1]].


'''Wikipedia blackout affirms overwhelming support for free and open Internet'''<br />
* The Hebrew Wikipedia received an Honor Certificate from the Israeli [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISOC Internet Society] and the National Society for Volunteering in Israel, in honor of its voluntary activity in the Internet for the benefit of man and society: [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/he/3/3c/Othokara.jpg Honor Certificate Image, in Hebrew].
Millions "Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge" and act to oppose SOPA/PIPA
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[[Press releases/Wikipedia blackout supports free and open internet|Read more]] (18 Jan 2012)
* The [[:de:|German Wikipedia]] reached 200,000 articles.
* The [[:ja:|Japanese Wikipedia]] reached 100,000 articles.
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* The [[:be:|Belarusan Wikipedia]] reaches 1000 articles.
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* The [[:an:|Aragonese Wikipedia]] reached 100 articles.
* The [[:lv:|Latvian Wikipedia]] reaches 1000 articles.


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* The [[:it:wikt:Pagina principale|Italian Wiktionary]] reached 10,000 articles.
'''English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA'''<br />
* The [[:ru:wikt:Заглавная страница|Russian Wiktionary]] reached 1,000 articles.
The Wikipedia community has chosen to protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. [[Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark|Read more]] (16 Jan 2012)
* The [[:hi:wikt:मुख्य पृष्ठ|Hindi Wiktionary]] reached 1,000 articles.
* The [[:et:wikt:Esileht|Estonian Wiktionary]] reached 1,000 articles.


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* [[:de:b:Hauptseite|German Wikibooks]] reached 200 books in 1300 chapters.
'''Wikimedia Foundation Rings In New Year With Record-breaking Fundraiser'''<br />
This year's annual campaign raised a record-breaking US$20 million from more than one million donors in nearly every country in the world. [[Press releases/Wikimedia Foundation Rings In New Year With Record-breaking Fundraiser|Read more]] (2 Jan 2012)


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* The [[wikisource:|Wikisource]] reaches 10,000 pages with Japanese language document [[wikisource:北海道舊土人保護法|北海道舊土人保護法]], about a Japanese law.


== 2011 ==
* Polish, Portuguese, and Romanian editions of [[Our projects#Wikinews|Wikinews]] are set up: See also [http://www.wikinews.org/ Wikinews portal]
{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-12|{{News-en/2011-12}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-11|'''Brin Wojcicki Foundation Announces $500,000 Grant to Wikimedia'''<br />
The Brin Wojcicki Foundation has also funded such organizations as the Michael J. Fox Foundation. [[Press releases/Brin Wojcicki Foundation Announces $500,000 Grant to Wikimedia|Read more]] (18 Nov 2011)


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=== January 2005 ===


'''Wikipedia's Contributors and Authors at the Center of Wikimedia's Eighth Annual Fundraiser'''<br />
* Wikipedia celebrated its 4th birthday.
The annual fundraiser brings in critical revenue so that Wikipedia and its sister projects can remain freely available to people around the world. Funds raised in this campaign by Wikimedia and its regional chapters will be used to maintain Wikimedia's server infrastructure and improve software, expand global reach, and provide direct support to a global volunteer community. The Foundation's total 2011-12 planned spending is US$28.3 million. [[Press_releases/Wikipedia's_Contributors_and_Authors_at_the_Center_of_Wikimedia's_Eighth_Annual_Fundraiser|Read more]] (16 Nov 2011)
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<!-- {{News-en/2011-11}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-10|'''Indigo Trust awards Wikimedia a Grant for Mobile Improvements'''<br />
Funds will go toward upgrading Wikimedia's mobile platform, which will enable Wikimedia to better reach the millions of people in the developing world and low-income communities everywhere. [[Press releases/Indigo Trust awards Wikimedia a Grant for Mobile Improvements|Read more]] (14 Oct 2011)
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<!-- {{News-en/2011-10}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-09|'''Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia $3.6 Million for Technology Improvements'''<br />
Grant will fund major investments in the technology infrastructure that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects.
[[Press_releases/Stanton_Foundation_Awards_Wikimedia_$3.6_Million_for_Technology_Improvements|Read more]] (5 Oct 2011)
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<!-- {{News-en/2011-09}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-08|'''Wikimedia Foundation Announces 2011-2012 Board of Trustees and Elected Officers'''<br />
Announcement follows Board meeting at Wikimania, the annual gathering of Wikimedia volunteers in Haifa, Israel. [[Press releases/August 2011 Wikimedia Foundation Announces 2011-2012 Board of Trustees and Elected Officers|Read more]] (3 August 2011)
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<!-- {{News-en/2011-08}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-07|'''The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation renews $3 million commitment to Wikimedia'''<br />
Funds will support Wikimedia's strategic plan that focuses on increasing quality, the number and demographic diversity of its editors, and reaching more readers. [[Press_releases/July_2011_The_Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation_renews_$3_million_commitment_to_Wikimedia|Read more]] (11 July 2011)
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<!-- {{News-en/2011-07}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-06|{{News-en/2011-06}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-05|{{News-en/2011-05}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-04|{{News-en/2011-04}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-03|{{News-en/2011-03}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-02|'''Wikimedia Foundation selects Watchmouse monitoring service'''<br />
"Live Health" of Wikipedia and additional websites now posted and updated in real time [[Press_releases/February_2011_Wikimedia_selects_Watchmouse_for_monitoring_services|Read more]] (9 February 2011)
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<!-- {{News-en/2011-02}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2011-01|'''Half a Million People Donate to Keep Wikipedia Free'''<br />
$16 million raised by more than 500,000 individual donations during seventh annual giving campaign. [[Half_a_Million_People_Donate_to_Keep_Wikipedia_Free|Read more]] (1 January 2011)
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== 2010 ==
* The [[:pt:wikt:Página_principal|Portuguese Wiktionary]] reached 1,000 articles.
{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-12|{{News-en/2010-12}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-11|'''Seventh Annual Campaign to Support Wikipedia Kicks Off '''<br />
* The [[:li:|Limburgish Wikipedia]] reaches 100 articles.
The Wikimedia Foundation ("WMF"), the non-profit behind Wikipedia, today announced the launch of its annual fundraising campaign. This year's goal is to raise $16 million so that Wikipedia and its sister projects can remain freely available to people around the world. [[Seventh Annual Campaign to Support Wikipedia Kicks Off|Read more]] (15 November 2010)
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<!-- {{News-en/2010-11}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-10|{{News-en/2010-10}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-09|{{News-en/2010-09}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-08|{{News-en/2010-08}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-07|'''Wikimedia Foundation announces changes to Board of Trustees'''<br />
Today, at the sixth annual Wikimania Conference, the Wikimedia Foundation announced important changes to the Board of Trustees.
[[Press room/July 2010 WMF Announces Changes to the Board|Read more]] (9 July 2010)
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<!-- {{News-en/2010-07}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-06|'''Zack Exley and Barry Newstead join the Wikimedia Foundation executive management team'''<br />
Barry Newstead will join as Chief Global Development Officer (CGDO), and Zack Exley will join as Chief Community Officer (CCO). Both are new positions, hired to fill out Wikimedia's senior team as it prepares to launch its new strategy, which calls for growing readership and new editors, particularly in the Global South. [[Press_releases/June_2010_Wikimedia_Foundation_appoints_new_CCO_and_CGDO|Read more]] (10 June 2010)
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<!-- {{News-en/2010-06}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-05|'''Wikimedia Foundation will engage academic experts and students to improve public policy information on Wikipedia'''<br />
A new project designed to improve the quality of public policy-related articles on Wikipedia has been announced. It is the first time the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a project designed to systematically increase the quality of articles in a particular topic area. [[Press releases/May_2010_Wikimedia_Foundation_will_engage_academic_experts_and_students_to_improve_public_policy_information|Read more]] (11 May 2010)
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'''Wikimedia Foundation Appoints Jing Wang and Mimi Ito to its Advisory Board'''<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation appointed two new members to its Advisory Board: Mimi Ito and Jing Wang. Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist with a focus on new media use among young people. Jing Wang is an author and professor of Chinese cultural studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the chair of the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons China Mainland. [[Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Appoints_Jing_Wang_and_Mimi_Ito_May_2010|Read more]] (11 May 2010)
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<!-- {{News-en/2010-05}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-04|'''Indian Journalist and film-maker Bishakha Datta joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees'''<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation today announced that Indian journalist, filmmaker and non-profit leader Bishakha Datta has joined its Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is the governing body that oversees the Wikimedia Foundation, the U.S.-based non-profit that operates Wikipedia. [[Press releases/Bishakha Datta to join Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees|Read more]] (5 April 2010)
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<!-- {{News-en/2010-04}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-03|{{News-en/2010-03}}}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-02|'''Wikimedia Foundation announces $2 million grant from Google'''<br />
Donation will support capacity investments in Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects.
[[Press releases/Wikimedia Foundation announces $2 million grant from Google|Read more]] (17 February 2010)
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'''Telefónica and Wikimedia Foundation Partner to Advance Learning and Increase Access to Free Knowledge'''<br />
Strategic partnership will improve access to Wikimedia educational and informational content in Latin America and Europe.
[[Press_releases/Telefonica_and_Wikimedia_partner_February_2010|Read more]] (1 February 2010)
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<!-- {{News-en/2010-02}} -->}}{{#ifexist:Template:News-en/2010-01|'''Wikimedia Foundation Hires Danese Cooper as Chief Technical Officer'''<br />
The Wikimedia Foundation today announced that it has hired open source evangelist and experienced technology manager Danese Cooper as CTO.
[[Press_releases/Danese_Cooper_joins_Wikimedia_as_CTO|Read more]] (28 January 2010)
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'''Wikipedia Annual Fundraiser Goal Supported by Record Number of Donors'''<br />
* The [[:nl:|Dutch Wikipedia]] reached 50,000 articles.
Over US$8 Million Raised by 230,000 donors in Campaign to Protect Wikipedia.
* The [[:hi:|Hindi Wikipedia]] reached 1,000 articles.
[[Press releases/2009 Fundraiser Closing Release|Read more]] (5 January 2010)
*[[:simple:|Simple English Wikipedia]] reached 2,500 articles.
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*The [[:cs:|Czech Wikipedia]] reached 5,000 articles.
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*The [[:en:|English Wikipedia]] reached 450,000 articles on its [[:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day|4th birthday]].
*The [[:hu:|Hungarian Wikipedia]] has reached 5,000 articles.


*''News before 2010 may be found on [[past events]].''
* The [[:hi:wikt:मुख्य पृष्ठ|Hindi Wiktionary]] reached 500 articles.


== Other news ==
* Dutch, French, Spanish and Swedish Wikinews were created.
=== December 2004 ===
* All Wikimedia project has been powered by MediaWiki1.4beta
* A completely rewritten [[:en:Wikipedia:spam|spam]] filter has been incorporated into [[m:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]], which blocks URLs containing certain domains and words. The new filter comes with a greatly expanded blacklist, derived from the publically available [http://wikiblacklist.blogspot.com Wikiblacklist].
* All [[:wikt:|Wiktionaries]] became unaccessible because its domain name was expired. The problem was solved on December 17 and Wiktionary regained its connectivity.


These news are maintained by volunteers on an independent basis.
* The [[:pl:Strona_g%C5%82%C3%B3wna|Polish Wikipedia]] reached 50,000 articles.
* [[:en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost|''The Wikipedia Signpost'']], weekly news by English Wikipedia based volunteers.
* The [[:ru:Заглавная страница|Russian Wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles.
* [[meta:Wikimedia News|Wikimedia News]]. Cross-project news, primarily project milestones.
* The [[:hi:मुख्य पृष्ठ|Hindi Wikipedia]] reached 500 articles.
* [[meta:Goings-on|Goings-on]]. More cross-project news.
* The [[:lv:Sākumlapa|Latvian Wikipedia]] reached 500 articles.
* [https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log Server admin log]. Technical software/hardware news.
* The [[:ro:Pagina principală|Romanian Wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles.
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* With the Romanian milestone, 20 Wikipedias now contain over 10,000 articles. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm Wikistats] has up-to-date [http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm size comparisons].
* [[:id:Main_Page|The Indonesian Wikipedia]] reached 5000 articles.
* The [[:scn:Paggina principali|Sicilian wikipedia]] reached 100 articles.

*[[:hr:wikt:Glavna stranica|Croatian Wiktionary]] reached 100 entries.
*[[:gl:wikt:Páxina Principal|Galician wiktionary]] reached 10,000 articles.

* The [[ja:q:メインページ|Japanese Wikiquote]] reached 100 articles.
*[[zh:q:|Chinese Wikiquote]] reached 100 articles.

* [[de:b:|German Wikibooks]] reached 1000 chapters (in 124 books).

* The English Wikinews project has left the demo stage and now resides at http://en.wikinews.org - more languages will follow soon.
* The German Wikinews project started at http://de.wikinews.org.

=== November 2004 ===
* In Rotterdam the first Wikipedia Symposium was held. It was a great success, with over 40 people present, among which were were three trustees, Jimmy Wales, Angela Beesly and Florence Duvoard.

* Wikipedia.org is the 172nd most visited site on the Internet according to [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=medium&compare_sites=&y=t&url=wikipedia.org#top Alexa.com].

* The [[:en:|English Wikipedia]] reached 8.00 [[:en:Special:Statistics|average edits per page]], suggesting increasing quality even with increasing quantity.
* The English Wikipedia has over 1 million total pages (over a third are legitimate articles).

* The [[:el:|Greek Wikipedia]] reached 2,500 articles.
*[[:it:|Italian Wikipedia]] reached 30,000 articles.
*[[:ko:|Korean Wikipedia]] reached 5000 articles.
*[[:kn:|Kannada Wikipedia]] reached 100 articles.
*[http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pagina_principale Italian wiktionary] reached 1000 articles.
*[[:sv:|Swedish Wikipedia]] reached 50.000 articles.
* [[:ca:|Catalan wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles.
* [[:uk:Головна стаття|Ukrainian wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles.
* The swedish Wikipedia became the world's seventh biggest wiki, by page count.

* The [[:pt:wikt:Página_principal|Portuguese Wiktionary]] had reached 500 articles.
*The English Wiktionary reached 50,000 articles.
*The [[:nl:wikt:|Dutch Wiktionary]] has its 1000th word in the Dutch language. There are 7129 articles and 233 languages.
* The [http://gu.wiktionary.org Gujarati Wiktionary] reached 100 articles.

*The [[:pl:q:Strona główna|Polish Wikiquote]] reached 500 articles.

*The [[:en:b:|English Wikibooks]] reached 5,000 modules.

=== October 2004 ===
* We have exceeded our goal of raising 50,000 dollars in two weeks. Thanks to all who donated!
* The location of [[m:Wikimania:Main Page|Wikimania 2005]] was determined to be [[:en:Frankfurt|Frankfurt]] am Main.
* The [[Local chapters|French chapter]] had its inaugural meeting ([http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Assemblée_générale]) in Paris and via the Wiki and IRC and elected its board members.
* [[:it:Utente:Vala|Vala]], a user of the [[:it:|Italian Wikipedia]], graduated in sociology with a thesis on Wikipedia. She graduated "summa cum laude". This is the first time in Italy that a thesis on this subject has been discussed.
[[Image:Vancouver-Carlos-mission.jpg|thumb|The 1000th WikiCommons file]]

* Images on Wikimedia Commons can now be linked to like local images.

* Wikipedia.org's daily Alexa rank hits 218 - a new record.[http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=30d&size=large&url=www.wikipedia.org#graph] See [[m:Wikipedia.org is more popular than...]].
* There has been a huge spike in traffic over the last two days leading to slower than normal load times. Our previous [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=wikipedia.org Alexa] ranking record was 349 on September 22nd; we climbed to 260.

* The [[:zh-min-nan:|Southern Min Wikipedia]] reached 500 articles.
* The [[:fi:|Finnish Wikipedia]] reached 10 000 articles ([[:fi:Wikipedia:Lehdistötiedote 10000 artikkelia|Press release in Finnish]])
*The [[:lt:|Lithuanian Wikipedia]] reached 1000 articles.
* The [[:no:|Norwegian Wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles ([[:no:Wikipedia:Pressemeldinger/10_000_artikler|Press release in Norwegian]])
* The [[:sa:|Sanskrit Wikipedia]] reached 1,000 articles.
* [[:bg:|Bulgarian Wikipedia]] reached 10,000 articles.
* The [[:pl:|Polish Wikipedia]] reached 40,000 articles.

* The [http://hi.wiktionary.org/ Hindi Wiktionary] reached 100 articles.
* [[:ja:wikt:メインページ|ウィクショナリー]], the Japanese Wiktionary, has passed 1,000 words.

* [[commons:Main Page|WikiCommons]] reached 1000 uploaded files (mostly images, but also over 100 sound fragments and 1 movie).

=== September 2004 ===
*The Foundation begins a two week [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fundraising Fundraising drive] with the aim of raising $50,000.
* Publication of the Foundation Wikimedia, Inc Newsletter: [[Wikimedia Quarto/0409/En|Wikimedia Quarto]]

*Wikipedia reaches a total of one million articles across all languages. See the international [[m:Wikimedia press releases/One million Wikipedia articles (US)|press release]].

''See also [[m:Wikimedia News]]''

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