There are already 4 million articles in English Wikipedia.
An English article was written yesterday in English Wikipedia, according to a Wikimedia Foundation blog. In total, Wikipedia's voluntary editors have created over 22 million articles in 285 languages in eleven years.
The four millionth article was Izbat Al Burj article about the city of Azbat al-Burgh in the province of Dumyat in Egypt. Over the course of several hours, more than 50 changes were made to the article and it was expanded from almost one sentence to several paragraphs with two maps.
The article was written by Mohammed Farag , an active Wikipedist in the Arabic and English Wikipedia, living in Alexandria, Egypt.
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According to him, he is proud to have helped Wikipedia to reach 4 million articles and become the largest encyclopedia in the world, but at the same time he believes that wikipedists should pay more attention to the quality of the encyclopedia than to the number of articles in it.
Now, of the four million articles in the English Wikipedia, about 20 thousand have the status of "good" or "chosen." This does not mean that the rest of the articles are bad, but these 20 thousand were particularly noted for their completeness, quality and style.
English Wikipedia reached the first million articles in 2006, the second in 2007, the third in 2009. The number of uncovered topics decreases more and more rapidly, but every day something new happens that needs to be written.
In Russian Wikipedia now there are more than 870 thousand articles and it is quite possible that by the end of next year their number will exceed one million. There are almost two thousand "good" and "selected" articles in Russian.
The four millionth article was Izbat Al Burj article about the city of Azbat al-Burgh in the province of Dumyat in Egypt. Over the course of several hours, more than 50 changes were made to the article and it was expanded from almost one sentence to several paragraphs with two maps.
The article was written by Mohammed Farag , an active Wikipedist in the Arabic and English Wikipedia, living in Alexandria, Egypt.
')
According to him, he is proud to have helped Wikipedia to reach 4 million articles and become the largest encyclopedia in the world, but at the same time he believes that wikipedists should pay more attention to the quality of the encyclopedia than to the number of articles in it.
Now, of the four million articles in the English Wikipedia, about 20 thousand have the status of "good" or "chosen." This does not mean that the rest of the articles are bad, but these 20 thousand were particularly noted for their completeness, quality and style.
English Wikipedia reached the first million articles in 2006, the second in 2007, the third in 2009. The number of uncovered topics decreases more and more rapidly, but every day something new happens that needs to be written.
In Russian Wikipedia now there are more than 870 thousand articles and it is quite possible that by the end of next year their number will exceed one million. There are almost two thousand "good" and "selected" articles in Russian.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/147810/
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