Wikipedia:Announcements March 2002

Announcements for March 2002

March 28, 2002

According to the Statistics page we've passed 30,000 substantial articles, continuing our rate of 125 articles per day.

March 27, 2002

The Esperanto Wikipedia recently reached 1,000 articles! Also, in the March 2002 edition of Esperanto magazine there is a short article about the wikipedia along with the Esperanto Wikipedia logo!

Stats:
Pages (total): 1,784
"Comma" pages: 1,206
Meta-wikipedia pages: -118
Useful articles: 1,088

You can find the Esperanto Wikipedia at http://eo.wikipedia.com/.

March 21, 2002

A dump of the complete Wikipedia database has been made available at http://www.wikipedia.com/tarballs/. Caution: this is an 80 megabyte download which is only useful for people who run a MySQL relational database.

March 20, 2002

As of March 20, 2002, Wikipedia has reached the 27,000 article mark, according to its front page article counter. (The statistics page count, which has a different count, shows that there are about 29019 articles, not counting any subpages!) Assuming the previous announcement's figure was quoted from the same stats page figure, this shows a rate of growth of around 125 articles per day in the last 8 days.

March 12, 2002

A glance at the Statistics page shows that we've comfortably exceeded 27,000 pages, even assuming that sub-pages aren't valid. An amazing feat!

Also, the complete 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is now available online at http://1911encyclopedia.org/ . Care will have to be taken with respect to copyright questions, but it was published in 1911 - whatever that implies. Before copying everything here, remember to look at Britannica Public Domain for the discussion about the use we want to make of this resource.

March 1, 2002

No longer an employee, with limited spare time, and discouraged that a good job can't be done as a part-time volunteer, Larry Sanger has resigned responsibility for leading Wikipedia and as Nupedia editor-in-chief. Please read his letter of resignation to the community (http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=My_resignation--Larry_Sanger).