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Wikipedia posts two-millionth English listing

Online encyclopaedia claims 3.4 million contributors to English version

Matt Chapman, vnunet.com 13 Sep 2007
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Wikipedia has published its two-millionth listing in the English version of the online encyclopaedia.

The milestone was reached with an article about Spanish television show El Hormiguero posted on 10 September.

Wikipedia has published more than eight million articles in 250 languages since being launched in 2001.

The next two largest Wikipedia sites are the German and French editions, which have more than half a million articles each.

The non-profit Wikipedia Foundation that operates Wikipedia claimed that its English site now has 3.4 million contributors.

Wikipedia is the sixth most visited collection of websites in the world behind Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Time Warner and eBay.

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