Wikipedia:Announcements September 2002

Current announcements - October 2002 - August 2002

Table of contents 1 Announcements for September 2002 1.1 September 30, 2002 1.2 September 26, 2002 1.3 September 21, 2002 1.4 September 18, 2002 1.5 September 13, 2002 1.6 September 6, 2002 1.7 September 5, 2002 1.8 September 3, 2002

Announcements for September 2002

September 30, 2002

At some point today, the Wikipedia reached 50,000 entries, according to the front page counter. Of course, many of these are short stubs, rather than full encyclopedia articles. Based on article size statistics, and comparisions with other encyclopedias, it seems likely that we there are now between 25,000 and 35,000 basic encylopedia articles in the Wikipedia database.

See also: Wikipedia:Size comparisons.

September 26, 2002

The Wikipedia:Embassy is opening up to help keep the non-English Wikipedias involved in the overall planning and maintenance of the project. Become a Wikipediambassador and make sure your language's community isn't left out!

September 21, 2002

The much-belated import of pre-January 2002 article edit histories from the old software has been done at last! (See caveats.)

There are now new graphs available for your interest on the pages Wikipedia:Traffic as well as Wikipedia:Size of Wikipedia, and Wikipedia:Awareness statistics.

September 18, 2002

Thanks to a brilliant idea of Andre Engels you can now find out who the most active Wikipedians are. See Wikipedia:Most active Wikipedians, find yourself and boost your ego;-)

September 13, 2002

On the day September 12, 2002, the English-language Wikipedia served 310639 hits, believed to be a record level of traffic for Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Traffic for details.

September 6, 2002

The server's clock is now set to worldwide standard UTC. Please visit your Preferences and make sure your time zone offset is set to something sensible (either 0 to show standard time, or your preferred local time).

September 5, 2002

In the period August 31 - September 5 2002, the estimated article growth rate appears to have been an amazing 209 articles/day.

September 3, 2002

The English-language Wikipedia is now receiving in excess of 200,000 hits/day on many days. See Wikipedia:Traffic for details.