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News and notes

By Flcelloguy and Michael Snow, May 22, 2006

Wikimedia Foundation chapters report

Delphine Ménard, chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Chapters committee, provided a report on her travels over the past few weeks, in which she met with several of the European local chapters. Her itinerary included meetings with the chapters based in Poland, Germany, Italy, and Serbia and Montenegro.

Briefly

• The Hungarian Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.
• The Greek Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.
• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles and 12,500 registered users.
• The Basque Wikipedia has reached 9,000 articles and 500 registered users.
• The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 400,000 edits since March 2003.
• The German Wikibooks has reached 5,000 book-Modules.
• The German Wikipedia has reached 400,000 articles.
• The Finnish Wiktionary has reached 500 registered users.
• The Wolof Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Slovak Wikiquote has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 20,000 registered users.
• The Limburgish Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has reached 4,000 articles.
• The Franco-Provençal Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
• The Kyrgyz Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 75,000 articles.
• Wikimedia Commons has reached 600,000 media files.
• The Thai Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
• The Greek Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Piedmontese Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Tetun Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
• The Korean Wiktionary has reached 7,000 entries.
• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 50,000 registered users and 20,000 files.
• The English Wikipedia has reached 55,000,000 edits since July 2002.
• The Indonesian Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.

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