Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-05-21/News and notes
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News and notes
LGBT WikiProject featured in US magazine
The LGBT studies WikiProject was featured in US magazine The Advocate, a magazine with 165,000 subscribers. The article quotes project coordinator Dev920, and misattributes a quote made by Gmaxwell to Raul654 ("All new media are first explored by the minorities and the marginalized.")
Briefly
- The Catalan government supports a marathon in the Catalan Wikipedia for reaching 100,000 articles in the Catalan language.
- The Italian Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles.
- The Volapük Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
- The German Wikipedia has reached 400,000 registered users.
- The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 600,000 edits.
- The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 40,000 registered users.
- The Min Nan Wiktionary has reached 20,000 edits.
- The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 15,000 total pages.
- The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 9,000 articles.
- The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
- The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 400,000 registered users.
- The Lombard Wikipedia has passed 50,000 articles.
- The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 600,000 edits.
- The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 edits.
- The Italian Wikiquote has reached 100,000 edits.
- The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 users.
- The Divehi Wiktionary has reached 500 pages.
- The Min Nan Wiktionary has reached 7,000 pages.
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