Wikipedia:Milestones

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March 2002

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!)

March 12, 2002

A glance at the Statistics page shows that we've comfortably exceeded 28,000 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.

February 2002

February 13, 2002

Larry Sanger has made an important announcement about his involvement in Wikipedia and Nupedia. He hopes you'll read this.

February 12, 2002

Numerous bugfixes and optimizations to the new PHP/MySQL-based software have brought Wikipedia back up to speed. Please continue to report bugs.

Well done, guys!

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