Progress in 2009

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  • Wikipedia ends the year with 14,678,281 articles. One year ago there were 12,021,330 articles. There has been an increase of 2,656,951 articles, which means 18.10% more articles.
  • Now there are 2 Wikipedias with more than 1,000,000 articles (one year ago, there was 1), 29 with more than 100,000 (24), 90 with more than 10,000 (81), 184 with more than 1,000 (163), and 245 with more than 100 (233).
  • Wiktionary ends the year with 6,854,158 articles. There are 2 Wiktionaries with more than 1,000,000 entries, 15 with more than 100,000, 49 with more than 10,000, 83 with more than 1,000, and 124 with more than 100.

December 2009

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The German Wikipedia celebrates "the first million" articles.
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November 2009

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October 2009

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  • The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles, becoming the 58th Wikipedia to do so.
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September 2009

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The Vietnamese Wikipedia rises to 100,000 articles in a metaphorical hot-air balloon.
  • The Vietnamese Wikipedia pushes past the 100,000-article mark with Shenyang J-11, part of a series of articles on military aircraft by Nalzogul. Around 5% of the Vietnamese Wikipedia's articles were originally created by bots.
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August 2009

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  • The Burmese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles (some day between August 21 and 26).
  • The Hakka Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles (some day between August 21 and 26).
  • The Lojban Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles (some day between August 21 and 26).
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  • The Greek Wikiquote (or "Βικιφθέγματα") has reached 1,000 articles
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Portuguese Wikipedia 500,000 articles
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July 2009

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  • The Ladino Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
  • The English Wikipedia has reached 300,000,000 edits. The 300,000,000th edit can be found here, as WP 1.0 Bot adds two and removes three entries from a list of articles by quality .

June 2009

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Russian Wikipedia 400,000 articles
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Korean Wikipedia 100,000
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The localized logo for ml Wikipedia
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May 2009

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Logo of Ukrainian Wikipedia with 150,000 articles
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Logo of Ukrainian Wiktionary with 20,000 articles
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The localized logo for Ido Wiktionary
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April 2009

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  • Meta has reached 250,000 registered users.
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Chinese Wikipedia 250,000
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Czech Wikisource – Wikizdroje
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Czech Wikiversity
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March 2009

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Czech Wikibooks
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  • The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has reached 500,000 wiki pages (including articles, talk pages, category pages, redirects, image descriptions, templates, etc.)
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  • The Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages has reached 1,000,000 edits (not counting deleted ones) in the first hours of the new year. It added Prositt Neujohr! about a poem traditionally recited New Year's morning before breakfast, while presenting a pretzel-shaped sweet bread to the family.