Wikipedia:Announcements April 2002

Announcements for April 2002

April 25, 2002

Wikipedia is mentioned in the Dutch weekly magazine Intermediair, in a column on open source and open content by Herbert Blankensteijn. Article not online; website at http://www.intermediair.nl.

April 16, 2002

More Statistics information - we've now passed 32,000 substantial articles. We're closing in on 33,333 (one third of the way toward 100,000).

April 12, 2002

A few of the signs that Wikipedia is starting to gain some general acceptance as a reference work (at least online among the tech-savvy) are that a recent Salon.com article (http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2002/04/12/microsoft_man_months/index) links to Wikipedia's software engineering article, and the website for development of the popular programming language Perl, dev.perl.org (http://dev.perl.org/perl6/), has a link to Wikipedia's BASIC article.

April 8, 2002

We passed the 31,000 substantial article mark according to the Statistics page over the weekend. Somewhere in the beginning of the Wikipedia there was a stated aim of 100,000 articles. Almost a third of the way there!

April 3, 2002

As of April 3, 2002, Wikipedia has reached the 28,000 article mark, according to its front page article counter. (The statistics page count, which has a different count, shows that there are about 30715 articles, not counting any subpages!)