User talk:Merajul Islam
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January 2022
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January 2022
27
- The Saraiki Wiktionary has reached 100,000 page edits.
25
- The Tachelhit/Shilha Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
24
- The Ingush Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
23
- The Sango Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
- The Vietnamese Wikibooks has reached 10,000 book modules.
20
- The Crimean Tatar Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles, as a user has created hundreds of new stubs for Russian rural localities (selos) in the last few days.
- The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles, as the municipality-stub creation begun earlier this month (see 8 January) continues with Germany.
19
- The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 20,000,000 page edits.
18
- The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
17
- The Sango Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.
16
- The Tok Pisin Wiktionary has reached 500 entries.
15
- The Russian Buryat Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
13
- The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
- The Estonian Wikibooks is back under 200 book modules.
12
- The Old Church Slavonic Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Mon Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries, as a user has added hundreds of entries for Unicode characters.
11
- The Wikimedia Commons has reached 80,000,000 files.
10
- The Low German / Low Saxon Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
8
- The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles, as a user has added over one thousand new stubs about Italian municipalities (comunes).
5
- The Sindhi Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
4
- The Telugu Wikibooks has reached 1,000 total pages.
- The Ukrainian Wikiquote has reached 15,000 registered users.
3
- The Saraiki Wiktionary has reached 50,000 entries.
December 2021
- Wikipedia ends the year with 58,001,902 articles in 323 languages (plus 2 language wikis with 0 articles), which constitutes a 4% increase in articles over the past year.
- Wiktionary ends the year with 30,919,192 entries in 163 languages (plus 20 language wikis with 0 entries), which constitutes a 6% increase in entries over the past year.
- Wikiquote ends the year with 265,560 content pages in 76 languages (plus 13 language wikis with 0 content pages), which constitutes a 9% increase in content pages over the past year.
- Wikibooks ends the year with 310,995 book modules in 98 languages (plus 22 language wikis with 0 book modules), which constitutes a 9% increase in book modules over the past year.
- Wikisource ends the year with 5,093,667 text units in 203 languages (comprising 5,054,336 units in 74 individual language wikis and an additional 39,331 units in 135 languages at the Multiligual Wikisource — 6 languages have content in both places), which constitutes a 9% increase in text units over the past year.
- Wikinews ends the year with 1,734,078 articles in 34 languages, which constitutes a 215% increase in articles over the past year (mostly due to mass-creation of articles by bots in the Russian Wikinews, which ramped up considerably in late 2020 and slowed again in mid 2021).
- Wikiversity ends the year with 135,538 learning modules in 54 languages (comprising 132,232 modules in 17 separate language wikis and an additional 3,306 modules in 37 languages at Wikiversity Beta), which constitutes a 6% increase in learning modules over the past year.
- Wikivoyage ends the year with 126,409 articles in 23 languages, which constitutes a 5% increase in articles over the past year.
- Wikimedia Commons ends the year with 79,778,063 media files, an 18% increase over the past year.
- Wikispecies ends the year with 784,656 content pages, a 5% increase over the past year.
- Wikidata ends the year with 96,429,676 items, a 5% increase over the past year.
- Wikimedia Incubator ends the year with 136,829 content pages across 1,117 test wikis in 808 different languages (including 16 test wikis that have been opened but appear to be empty), which constitutes a 10% decrease in content pages over the past year (mainly due to the transfer of content into new standalone wikis created in 2021).
- There were 18 content wikis created in 2021 (9 Wikipedias, 6 Wiktionaries, 2 Wikisources, and 1 Wikivoyage); this is 4 more than were created in 2020.
- One content wiki was emptied and closed (locked) in 2021 (the Northern Luri Wikipedia).
- Note: The article counts listed above are actual counts collected in the last 5 minutes of 2021-12-31 (UTC). All counts are based on what MediaWiki sees as constituting an article (or content page), as reflected at each wiki's Special:Statistics page. Language counts (which were collected in the last 20 minutes of 2021-12-31) include closed (but not deleted) wikis and count "Simple English" as a separate language when such a wiki exists within a project.
31
- The Sango Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.
29
- The Mon Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.
26
- The Egyptian Arabic Wikipedia has reached 1,500,000 articles.
23
- The Alemannic Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 page edits.
- The Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
22
- The Sango Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
21
- The Dagbani Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Norwegian (Bokmål) Wiktionary has reached 150,000 entries.
- The Sango Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries and 10,000 page edits.
18
- The Malay Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
- The German Wikisource has reached 500,000 text units.
- The Turkish Wikisource has reached 15,000 text units, about one year after reaching 10,000.
16
- The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles.
15
- The Greek Wiktionary has reached 800,000 entries.
- The Polish Wikisource has reached 1,000,000 total pages.
14
- The Polish Wikipedia has reached 1,500,000 articles.
- The Sango Wiktionary has dropped below 100 entries, following the deletion of a few dozen pages by a steward.
13
- The Lombard Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
12
- The Malayalam Wikisource has reached 20,000 text units.
- The Japanese Wikivoyage has reached 500 articles.
11
- The Cheyenne Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
8
- The Lombard Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
5
- The Amharic Wikipedia has reached 2,000 uploaded files.
- The Thai Wikiquote has fallen below 100 content pages.
4
- The Balinese Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
- The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 100,000 registered users.
- The Swedish Wikiquote has reached 10,000 registered users.
November 2021
30
- The Meitei Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
29
- The Kashmiri Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Lombard Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.
28
- The Belarusian Wikisource has reached 5,000 text units.
27
- The Greek Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles.
26
- The Bengali Wikibooks has reached 10,000 total pages.
- Wikidata has reached 100,000,000 total pages.
23
- The Norman Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
22
- The Palatinate German Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
21
- The Hindi Wikisource has reached 5,000 text units.
20
- The Akan Wikipedia has dropped below 1,000 articles (down to less than half of the count 24 hours ago), as a cross-wiki admin has deleted hundreds of substandard articles.
17
- The Cornish Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
16
- The Shan Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
14
- The Occitan Wiktionary has reached 60,000 entries.
9
- The Twi Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Zhuang Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
8
- The Mon Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
6
- The Amharic Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
1
- The three newest Wikimedia wikis have had their on-wiki statistics initialized, resulting in the following article counts:
- The Amis Wikipedia has 812 articles.
- The Paiwan Wikipedia has 154 articles.
- The Lombard Wiktionary has 8,088 entries (this was the count at the end of the day [UTC], after additional entries were created — the count immediately after the initialization took place was probably around 8,040).
October 2021
31
- The Nias Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The following three wikis are open for editing, after being created as standalone wikis three days ago; the on-wiki statistics of each should be initialized within the next 24 hours.
- The Lombard Wiktionary, with content imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.
- The Amis Wikipedia, with content imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.
- The Paiwan Wikipedia, with content imported from the test wiki at the Wikimedia Incubator.
26
- The Cherokee Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
25
- The Korean Wikisource has reached 20,000 text units.
24
- The Balinese Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
- The Sakizaya Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
21
- The Dagbani Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
20
- The Hindi Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.
- The Meitei Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
- The Swedish Wikivoyage has reached 10,000 registered users.
18
- The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 600,000 articles.
17
- The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 200,000 articles again, after falling below that level back in March.
16
- The Madurese Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
- The Altai Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
15
- The Esperanto Wiktionary has reached 1,000,000 page edits.
- The English Wikisource has reached 900,000 text units.
14
- The Cebuano Wikipedia has reached 6,000,000 articles.
- The Hausa Wiktionary has reached 500 entries.
13
- The Meitei Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
- The Latin Wikibooks has reached 10,000 page edits.
11
- The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 100,000 uploaded files.
10
- The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 1 million words in all content pages.
9
- The Aymara Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
3
- The Altai Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Saraiki Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.
2
- The German Wikibooks has reached 30,000 book modules.
1
- The Hungarian Wikisource has reached 10,000 registered users.
September 2021
28
- The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 uploaded files.
27
- The Fiji Hindi Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
26
- The Welsh Wikisource has reached 1,000 text units.
25
- The Breton Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.
23
- The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 80,000 articles.
- The N'Ko Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
18
- The Zulu Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
- The Hausa Wiktionary has reached 10,000 page edits.
- The Italian Wikibooks has reached 15,000 book modules.
17
- The Javanese Wikisource has reached 1,000 text units.
13
- The Meitei Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
8
- The Afrikaans Wikipedia has reached 100,000 articles.
3
- The Inari Sami Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
August 2021
31
- The Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
- The Guarani Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
29
- The Minangkabau Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
27
- The Kurdish Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
25
- The Kinyarwanda Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
- The Vietnamese Wikivoyage has reached 100,000 page edits.
22
- The Chechen Wikipedia has reached 400,000 articles.
- The Kurdish Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 page edits.
- The Asturian Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.
21
- The Mon Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.
20
- The German Wiktionary has reached 1,000,000 entries.
- The Latin Wikisource has reached 10,000 text units.
- The Tamil Wikisource has reached 10,000 registered users.
19
- The Kurdish Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages.
18
- The Vietnamese Wikibooks has reached 5,000 book modules, as a local admin has been creating thousands of new book modules for lists of asteroids (some of which contain the lists currently and some of which do not).
16
- The Kashmiri Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
- The Afrikaans Wikiquote has reached 10,000 page edits.
15
- The Javanese Wikisource has had its statistics recounted for the first time since its content was imported, resulting in 586 text units.
12
- The Javanese Wikisource is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki last week, with content imported from the Multilingual Wikisource.
11
- The Arabic Wikisource has reached 80,000 text units.
10
- The Catalan Wiktionary has reached 500,000 entries.
6
- The Dagbani Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
- The Ukrainian Wikisource has reached 80,000 text units.
5
- The Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages, as a bot has created hundreds of nearly empty template pages.
- The English Wikiquote has reached 40,000 content pages.
4
- The Latvian Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.
- The Vietnamese Wikisource has reached 100,000 page edits.
3
- The Hebrew Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles.
1
- The recently created Balinese Wikisource has had its statistics recounted for the first time since its content was imported, resulting in 3,272 text units.
July 2021
31
- The Luxembourgish Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
- The Tachelhit/Shilha Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
- The Tatar Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles.
- The Sundanese Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
- The Punjabi Wikisource has reached 1,000 text units.
30
- The Swedish Wikipedia has fallen below 3,000,000 articles, due to a cleanup of unverifiable Lsjbot-made articles by local administrators.
28
- The Wikimania wiki has reached 100,000 page edits.
27
- The Kurdish Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
26
- The Dinka Wikipedia has reached 1,000 total pages.
25
- The Hebrew Wikisource has reached 200,000 text units.
- The Balinese Wikisource is open for editing, after being created as a standalone wiki late last month, with content imported from the Multilingual Wikisource.
23
- The Hausa Wikipedia has reached 100,000 page edits.
22
- The Dagbani Wikipedia has reached 1,000 total pages.
21
- The Italian Wikiquote has reached 40,000 content pages.
- The Thai Wikiquote has fallen below 200 content pages.
18
- The Esperanto Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles.
17
- The Russian Wikinews has reached 1,000,000 articles.
15
- The Telugu Wikibooks has reached 100 book modules.
- The Russian Wikinews has reached 900,000 articles.
- Wikimedia Commons has reached 100,000,000 total pages.
- The recently created Dagbani Wikipedia has had its statistics counted for the first time since its content was imported, resulting in 281 articles.
- The recently created Tachelhit/Shilha Wikipedia has had its statistics counted for the first time since its content was imported, resulting in 987 articles.
14
- The Kotava Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
- The Russian Wikinews has reached 800,000 articles.
9
- The Mon Wiktionary has reached 10,000 page edits.
- The Bashkir Wikibooks has reached 1,000 registered users.
8
- The Saraiki Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.
6
- The Tagalog Wikipedia has fallen below 50,000 articles, as the cleanup effort started in August 2020 continues.
- The Kyrgyz Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.
2
- The Slovenian Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries.
- The Dagbani Wikipedia is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki two days ago, with content imported from the Incubator test wiki.
- The Tachelhit/Shilha Wikipedia is open for editing after being created as a standalone wiki two days ago, with content imported from the Incubator test wiki.
1
- The Novial Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
- The Russian Wikinews has reached 700,000 articles.
June 2021
26
- The Telugu Wikibooks has reached 10,000 page edits.
- The Italian Wikivoyage has reached 10,000 articles.
25
- The Oromo Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries.
24
- The Tuvan Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
- The Catalan Wikiquote has reached 10,000 registered users.
23
- The Hausa Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles (communiqué).
- The Azerbaijani Wikiquote has reached 100,000 page edits.
21
- The Vietnamese Wikibooks has reached 2,000 book modules again, after dropping below that level last month.
19
- The Kashmiri Wiktionary has reached 10,000 page edits.
- The Mon Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
- The Russian Wikisource has reached 100,000 registered users.
17
- The Swazi Wiktionary has reached 10,000 page edits.
14
- The Kashmiri Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
- The Swedish Wiktionary has reached 800,000 entries.
- The Hindi Wikibooks has reached 10,000 registered users.
12
- The Esperanto Wikivoyage has reached 1,000 articles.
7
- The English Wikibooks has reached 90,000 book modules.
5
- The Altai Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
3
- The Armenian Wiktionary has reached 10,000 registered users.
- The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 1,000,000 entries.
2
- The Crimean Tatar Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
May 2021
29
- The Russian Wikinews has reached 600,000 articles and 10,000,000 total pages.
- The Thai Wikisource has dropped below 10,000 text units, losing more than a third of its content, following the deletion of a large work still under copyright.
28
- The Kashmiri Wiktionary has reached 500 entries.
25
- The Persian Wikipedia has reached 800,000 articles.
- The Russian Wikinews has reached 500,000 articles.
24
- The Nauruan Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
- The Bengali Wiktionary has reached 30,000 entries.
23
- The Bengali Wiktionary has reached 100,000 page edits.
22
- The Bengali Wiktionary has reached 20,000 entries, as a user has been creating thousands of entries for English words using templates that need to be translated into Bengali.
- The Mon Wiktionary has reached 1,000 entries.
16
- The Zazaki Wiktionary has reached 5,000 entries.
15
- The Welsh Wikisource has reached 10,000 page edits.
14
- The Nias Wikipedia has reached 10,000 page edits.
- The Lithuanian Wiktionary has reached 10,000 registered users.
12
- The Nepali Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 page edits.
11
- The Franco-Provençal/Arpitan Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
- The Bengali Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries.
10
- The Nepali Wikipedia has reached 100,000 total pages.
- The Vietnamese Wikibooks has fallen below 2,000 book modules.
- The Oriya Wikisource has reached 1,000 text units.
- The Polish Wikisource has reached 900,000 text units.
9
- The Inari Sami Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
8
- The Irish Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 page edits.
7
- The Georgian Wiktionary has reached 100,000 page edits.
5
- The Aragonese Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
3
- The Oromo Wiktionary has reached 10,000 entries.
1
- The Chinese Wikinews has reached 15,000 articles.
April 2021
30
- The Zazaki Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
28
- The Tarantino Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
27
- The Turkish Wikipedia has reached 400,000 articles.
- The Oromo Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.
26
- The Interlingue Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
- The Ladin Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
21
- The Maithili Wikipedia has reached 10,000 registered users.
- The Mon Wiktionary has reached 500 entries.
19
- The Sorani Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
- The Minangkabau Wiktionary has reached 10,000 total pages.
13
- The Cornish Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
- The Arabic Wikibooks has reached 100,000 page edits.
- The Arabic Wikiversity has reached 100,000 page edits.
12
- The Komi-Permyak Wikipedia has reached 10,000 total pages.
- The Venda Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
- The Venetian Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 page edits.
10
- The Nias Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
9
- The Kashmiri Wiktionary has reached 1,000 total pages.
8
- The Uyghur Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
- The Kashmiri Wiktionary has reached 200 entries.
6
- The Cherokee Wiktionary has dropped below 500 entries, down to roughly 0.2% of its size two weeks ago when a temporary local admin began deleting unreliable bot-created entries that had seen no human edits since their creation.
5
- The Cherokee Wiktionary has dropped below 5,000 entries, as the cleanup effort continues (see 26 March).
4
- The Cherokee Wiktionary has dropped below 10,000 entries.
3
- The Cherokee Wiktionary has dropped below 40,000 entries.
2
- The Vietnamese Wikiquote has reached 200 content pages.
1
- The Kazakh Wikipedia has reached 10,000 uploaded files.
- The recently created Atayal Wikipedia has had its statistics initialized, resulting in 2,399 articles.
- The recently created Mon Wiktionary has had its statistics initialized, resulting in 213 entries.
- The Cherokee Wiktionary has dropped below 50,000 entries, as the cleanup effort continues.
Older news
For older news items, see the 2021 archive or the archives for earlier years listed at the top of this page.
Projects by number of content pages
The tables below are arranged chronologically by the original launch dates of the major content projects, within two main groups: "interlingual" projects (different wiki for each language) followed by "multilingual" projects (all languages on the same wiki). The older Wikimedia projects (such as Wikipedia) tend to be larger than the newer ones, but note that these tables are not arranged by number of sub-wikis nor by total article count (across all languages).
For the interlingual projects, within each table the individual language editions are arranged by milestone level, and then chronologically by the date the milestones were first reached.
- Note: You can go directly to the table for Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, or Wikidata.
Wikipedia
See also List of Wikipedias and Wikipedia milestones.
Milestone | Languages (with dates milestones reached) |
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6,000,000 | English (23 January 2020); Cebuano (14 October 2021) |
5,000,000 | |
4,000,000 | |
3,000,000 | |
2,000,000 | Swedish (5 September 2015); German (19 November 2016); French (8 July 2018); Dutch (8 March 2020) |
1,500,000 | Russian (1 October 2018); Spanish (20 January 2019); Italian (1 February 2019); Polish (14 December 2021); Egyptian Arabic (26 December 2021) |
1,000,000 | Waray-Waray (8 June 2014); Vietnamese (15 June 2014); Japanese (19 January 2016); Chinese (13 April 2018); Portuguese (26 June 2018); Arabic (17 November 2019); Ukrainian (22 March 2020) |
900,000 | |
800,000 | Persian (25 May 2021) |
700,000 | |
600,000 | Serbian (16 January 2018); Catalan (8 January 2019); Indonesian (18 October 2021) |
500,000 | Norwegian (Bokmål) (2 January 2019); Korean (14 June 2020); Finnish (28 December 2020) |
400,000 | Serbo-Croatian (20 June 2015); Hungarian (15 December 2016); Czech (10 February 2018); Romanian (15 August 2019); Min Nan (14 April 2020); Turkish (27 April 2021); Chechen (22 August 2021) |
300,000 | Malay (23 July 2017); Basque (17 July 2018); Esperanto (18 July 2021); Tatar (31 July 2021); Hebrew (3 August 2021) |
200,000 | Kazakh (29 November 2012); Minangkabau (10 September 2013); Slovak (5 February 2015); Danish (11 June 2015); Bulgarian (12 June 2015); Armenian (1 June 2016); Croatian (6 November 2018); Estonian (12 August 2019); South Azerbaijani (19 March 2020); Belarusian (31 December 2020); Lithuanian (17 October 2021); Greek (27 November 2021); Simple English (16 December 2021) |
150,000 | Slovene (31 March 2016); Galician (27 July 2018); Norwegian Nynorsk (11 September 2019); Azerbaijani (24 September 2019); Urdu (23 November 2019); Georgian (8 March 2021); Hindi (20 October 2021) |
100,000 | Volapük (7 September 2007); Uzbek (20 March 2013); Latin (18 December 2013); Thai (30 January 2016); Tamil (8 May 2017); Welsh (27 March 2018); Macedonian (27 April 2019); Tajik (20 December 2019); Latvian (24 January 2020); Asturian (25 January 2020); Cantonese (12 August 2020); Bengali (25 December 2020); Burmese (1 January 2021); Afrikaans (8 September 2021) |
90,000 | Malagasy (13 December 2018) |
80,000 | Occitan (21 June 2013); Bosnian (1 June 2019); Kyrgyz (9 August 2020); Low German/Low Saxon (25 November 2020); Marathi (23 September 2021) |
70,000 | Nepal Bhasa (9 March 2013); Albanian (10 November 2017); Belarusian/Taraškievica (30 April 2020); Malayalam (6 August 2020); Telugu (25 November 2020); Luxembourgish (31 July 2021); Breton (25 September 2021) |
60,000 | Piedmontese (27 March 2013); Sundanese (19 May 2020); Venetian (11 September 2020); Haitian (4 October 2020); Javanese (15 November 2020); Western Punjabi (16 February 2021) |
50,000 | Irish (14 January 2019); Swahili (3 May 2019); Silesian (25 September 2019); Bashkir (30 October 2019); Icelandic (16 June 2020); Kurdish (27 August 2021); Lombard (8 December 2021) |
40,000 | Tagalog (25 October 2010); Scots (14 July 2016); Chuvash (20 April 2017); West Frisian (25 April 2018); Wu (7 October 2020); Zazaki (30 April 2021); Aragonese (5 May 2021) |
30,000 | Yoruba (23 June 2012); Nepali (27 February 2017); Punjabi (4 August 2018); Bavarian (24 September 2019); Ido (10 December 2020) |
20,000 | Bishnupriya Manipuri (19 August 2007); Gujarati (1 June 2011); Sicilian (27 October 2012); Alemannic (12 October 2015); Kannada (12 March 2016); Quechua (15 February 2017); Interlingua (1 April 2017); Sorani (24 November 2017); Mongolian (6 December 2020) |
15,000 | Samogitian (23 February 2016); Oriya (2 July 2019); Min Dong (27 September 2019); Scottish Gaelic (27 December 2019); Ilokano (22 April 2020); Navajo (25 May 2020);Mingrelian (23 October 2020); Yiddish (15 November 2020); Kotava (14 July 2021); Amharic (6 November 2021); Crimean Tatar (20 January 2022) |
10,000 | Neapolitan (20 June 2006); Walloon (20 March 2008); Buginese (8 November 2011); Banyumasan (10 January 2012); Mazandarani (30 August 2012); Sakha (5 January 2014); Sinhalese (3 February 2014); Faroese (29 May 2014); Ossetian (20 December 2014); Hill Mari (4 July 2015); Limburgish (31 August 2015); Upper Sorbian (12 December 2015); Sanskrit (23 August 2016); Maithili (30 December 2016); Emilian-Romagnol (15 May 2018); Meadow Mari (29 May 2018); Sindhi (1 July 2018); Pashto (28 May 2019); Classical Chinese (28 October 2019); Acehnese (8 November 2019); North Frisian (20 January 2020); Central Bikol (23 March 2020); Gorontalo (17 October 2020); Ligurian (22 March 2021); Hausa (23 June 2021); Zulu (18 September 2021); Fiji Hindi (27 September 2021); Balinese (24 October 2021); Shan (16 November 2021); Meitei (30 November 2021); Ladin (20 January 2022) |
5,000 | Tarantino (2 August 2007); Maori (10 September 2007); Kapampangan (1 April 2008); Nahuatl (7 September 2008); Gilaki (30 April 2009); Gan (29 March 2010); Tibetan (14 December 2011); Northern Sami (1 July 2012); Dutch Low Saxon (12 September 2012); Võro (7 October 2012); Rusyn / Ruthenian (22 January 2013); West Flemish (16 September 2014); Bhojpuri (19 October 2014); Corsican (1 July 2015); Hakka (14 August 2015); Turkmen (27 August 2015); Sardinian (24 October 2015); Veps (28 December 2015); Kashubian (11 April 2016); Northern Sotho (1 November 2016); Khmer (21 December 2016); Komi (11 March 2017); Somali (26 November 2017); Erzya (12 February 2018); Assamese (25 September 2018); Abkhazian (23 July 2019); Shona (8 March 2020); Manx (9 March 2020); Interlingue (10 August 2020); Santali (4 November 2020); Kabyle (15 November 2020); Picard (6 December 2020); Udmurt (20 January 2021); Uyghur (8 April 2021); Arpitan / Franco-Provençal (11 May 2021); Aymara (9 October 2021); Cornish (17 November 2021) |
2,000 | Norman (14 November 2006); Friulian (22 April 2007); Pali (8 June 2007); Divehi (28 December 2007); Romansh (29 January 2008); Maltese (4 May 2008); Ladino / Judeo-Spanish (3 July 2009); Ripuarian (5 November 2009); Anglo-Saxon / Old English (5 April 2010); Komi-Permyak (11 June 2011); Saterland Frisian (3 December 2011); Extremaduran (27 December 2011); Zeelandic (16 January 2012); Gagauz (1 September 2012); Guarani (5 November 2012); Lingala (6 January 2013); Mirandese (18 September 2013); Lower Sorbian (15 April 2014); Lezgian (8 June 2014); Zamboanga Chavacano (12 June 2014); Pangasinan (31 January 2015); Palatinate German (15 March 2015); Kalmyk (8 May 2015); Avar (19 August 2015); Karachay-Balkar (28 August 2015); Goan Konkani (13 February 2016); Livvi-Karelian (21 March 2017); Lao (28 April 2017); Doteli (19 July 2017); Hawaiian (21 August 2017); Russian Buryat (25 September 2017); Lingua Franca Nova (19 May 2018); Banjar (22 January 2019); Tuvan (7 March 2020); Awadhi (1 June 2020); Moroccan Arabic (23 August 2020); Papiamentu (10 September 2020); Igbo (28 November 2020); Inari Sami (31 December 2020); Saraiki (22 January 2021); Kinyarwanda (1 February 2021); Atayal (1 April 2021); Sakizaya (24 October 2021); Zhuang (9 November 2021) |
1,000 | Pennsylvania German (16 October 2006); Tongan (25 April 2007); Lojban (26 August 2009); Wolof (27 August 2009); Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (21 October 2009); Tok Pisin (5 March 2011); Lak (24 July 2011); Moksha (30 July 2011); Sranan (26 August 2012); Kabardian (25 April 2013); Tahitian (24 March 2014); Nauruan (13 June 2014); Karakalpak (14 August 2014); Aromanian (8 October 2014); Novial (29 October 2014); Tetum (20 April 2015); Kongo (21 November 2015); Kikuyu (7 March 2016); Jamaican Patois/Creole (1 June 2016); Luganda (21 June 2016); Bislama (7 April 2017); Kabiye (24 January 2018); Tulu (31 January 2019); Atikamekw (2 February 2019); Ingush (20 April 2019); Xhosa (7 August 2019); Guianan Creole (26 January 2020); Fijian (23 August 2020); Latgalian (23 August 2020); Oromo (4 December 2020); Northern Luri (14 January 2021); Samoan (19 March 2021); Seediq (22 March 2021); Tachelhit/Shilha (31 July 2021); N'Ko (23 September 2021); Altai (3 October 2021); Cherokee (26 October 2021); Nias (31 October 2021); Mon (8 November 2021); Twi (9 November 2021); Kashmiri (29 November 2021); Dagbani (21 December 2021); Old Church Slavonic (12 January 2022) |
500 | Greenlandic (10 May 2010); Romani (6 April 2011); Cheyenne (24 August 2012); Tswana (22 May 2015); Tumbuka (28 February 2016); Norfolk (13 November 2016); Gothic (6 June 2017); Sesotho (28 June 2017); Tsonga (10 August 2017); Kirundi (6 October 2017); Bambara (18 March 2018); Akan (17 April 2018); Chichewa (15 February 2019); Chamorro (23 November 2019); Swazi (14 December 2019); Inuktitut (9 January 2021); Madurese (21 January 2021); Venda (12 April 2021); Amis (1 November 2021) |
200 | Moldovan (7 August 2005); Pontic (24 May 2009); Inupiak (8 July 2010); Ewe (15 August 2010); Sango (1 June 2013); Adyghe (12 February 2016); Dzongkha (20 October 2016); Fula (21 January 2017); Tigrinya (5 February 2020); Dinka (17 October 2020) |
100 | Cree (12 November 2016); Paiwan (1 November 2021) |
Wiktionary
Exact milestone dates shown below are usually based on announcements made on this page. Date ranges are based on the page history of Wiktionary/Table (back to 26 January 2008) or Wiktionary (before that, back to 8 July 2004) and also the saved Wiktionary statistics at wikistatistics.net.
Milestone | Languages (with dates milestones reached) |
---|---|
6,000,000 | English (9 April 2019) |
5,000,000 | |
4,000,000 | French (18 December 2020) |
3,000,000 | |
2,000,000 | |
1,500,000 | Malagasy (6 February 2021) |
1,000,000 | Chinese (4 June 2021); German (20 August 2021) |
900,000 | Serbo-Croatian (12 May 2016); Russian (13 May 2018); Spanish (17 May 2020) |
800,000 | Swedish (14 June 2021); Greek (15 December 2021) |
700,000 | Dutch (12 May 2019); Polish (16 March 2020); Kurdish (15 November 2020) |
600,000 | Lithuanian (5 January 2012) |
500,000 | Italian (25 October 2019); Catalan (10 August 2021) |
400,000 | Finnish (7 May 2020) |
300,000 | Turkish (10 May 2012); Tamil (31 December 2014); Hungarian (27 October 2015); Armenian (26 November 2019); Ido (14 July 2020) |
200,000 | Vietnamese (14 October 2006); Kannada (23 March 2012); Portuguese (25 September 2014); Korean (21 February 2016); Serbian (16 June 2017); Japanese (23 March 2018); Thai (30 July 2020) |
150,000 | Hindi (26 May 2016); Romanian (1 October 2020); Norwegian (Bokmål) (21 December 2021) |
100,000 | Burmese (23 April 2011); Indonesian (31 December 2011); Malayalam (24 March 2012); Limburgish (19 May 2012); Estonian (2 February 2013); Uzbek (17 November 2014); Telugu (1 April 2015); Oriya (24 May 2015); Czech (19 April 2018); Esperanto (11 August 2019); Persian (25 March 2020) |
90,000 | |
80,000 | |
70,000 | |
60,000 | Arabic (28 June 2016); Galician (17 September 2020); Occitan (14 November 2021) |
50,000 | Javanese (7 December 2013); Basque (11 March 2017); Azerbaijani (25 April 2017); Ukrainian (1 August 2020) |
40,000 | Breton (26 May 2019); Asturian (22 August 2021); Saraiki (3 October 2021) |
30,000 | Lao (10 May 2012); Fijian (17 October 2012); Croatian (24 October 2015); Danish (2 March 2016); Tajik (5 July 2019); Icelandic (23 February 2020); Simple English (4 March 2020); Latin (20 April 2020); Bengali (24 May 2021); Kyrgyz (6 July 2021) |
20,000 | Bulgarian (28 April 2005); Volapük (19–20 July 2007); Min Nan (4 May 2013); Pashto (17 July 2013); Welsh (26 July 2013); Walloon (16 August 2016); Slovak (6 August 2017); Afrikaans (13 March 2018); Hebrew (10 January 2019); Shan (16 July 2020); Slovenian (2 July 2021) |
15,000 | Sicilian (16–17 March 2010); Tagalog (30 May 2015); Urdu (4 June 2018); Punjabi (7 October 2019); Oromo (25 June 2021) |
10,000 | West Frisian (26–27 April 2009); Swahili (19–20 May 2009); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (9 August 2012); Latvian (13 June 2017); Albanian (1 October 2019); Georgian (22 September 2020); Minangkabau (29 August 2021); Lombard (13 December 2021); Malay (18 December 2021); Low German / Low Saxon (10 January 2022); Sango (23 January 2022) |
5,000 | Luxembourgish (10 May 2012); Western Punjabi (18 May 2012); Nahuatl (1 November 2012); Bosnian (23 November 2012); Kazakh (18 July 2014); Mongolian (14 December 2015); Corsican (16 March 2016); Sanskrit (20 February 2017); Cantonese (4 September 2020); Khmer (28 September 2020); Zazaki (16 May 2021); Mon (21 August 2021) |
2,000 | Anglo-Saxon (6–7 June 2007); Upper Sorbian (March–April 2008); Wolof (11 June 2009); Turkmen (22 June 2009); Belarusian (18 May 2011); Irish (12 June 2011); Macedonian (11 May 2012); Aragonese (19 August 2015); Venetian (30 January 2016); Samoan (21 March 2016); Tatar (6 February 2019); Shawiya (9 December 2019); Scottish Gaelic (30 January 2020); Interlingua (14 June 2020); Goan Konkani (14 July 2020); Maltese (15 January 2021); Meitei (1 March 2021); Marathi (11 March 2021); Faroese (15 March 2021); Nias (10 April 2021); Sundanese (31 July 2021); Kashmiri (16 August 2021); Sindhi (5 January 2022) |
1,000 | Southern Sotho (25–26 January 2007); Kashubian (20–21 January 2008); Guarani (1 July 2008); Sinhalese (10 May 2012); Uyghur (19 August 2013); Somali (22 April 2014); Aromanian (16 August 2015); Interlingue (20 August 2015); Maori (11 May 2017); Fiji Hindi (10 November 2017); Greenlandic (3 September 2019); Aymara (16 May 2020); Zulu (13 July 2020); Central Bikol (15 January 2021) |
500 | Lojban (5 August 2012); Lingala (27 February 2013); Nauruan (14 November 2014); Yiddish (1 October 2019); Gujarati (15 December 2019); Manx (7 July 2020); Hausa (14 October 2021); Tok Pisin (16 January 2022) |
200 | Rwandi (13–14 December 2006); Tsonga (18–19 July 2007); Quechua (19 July 2007); Swati (22–23 March 2010); Inuktitut (14–15 June 2010); Cornish (28–29 August 2010); Cherokee (28 June 2012); Amharic (5 July 2012); Nepali (1 November 2015) |
100 | Inupiak (10–11 June 2010); Zhuang (27–28 July 2010); Tigrinya (10 May 2012); Tswana (23 June 2014); Maldivian/Dhivehi (24 June 2014) |
Wikiquote
Exact milestone dates shown below are usually from announcements made on this page. Date ranges are based on the page history of Wikiquote/Table (back to 24 September 2008) or Wikiquote (before that).
Milestone | Languages (with dates milestones reached) |
---|---|
40,000 | Italian (21 July 2021); English (5 August 2021) |
30,000 | |
20,000 | Polish (21 November 2012) |
15,000 | |
10,000 | Russian (10 April 2015); Czech (25 August 2020) |
5,000 | German (9 March 2006); Portuguese (16–26 July 2008); Spanish (25 November 2011); Ukrainian (3 November 2016); Persian (3 November 2016); French (23 October 2019); Hebrew (6 December 2020); Estonian (27 February 2021) |
2,000 | Bulgarian (23 September 2005); Slovak (17 May 2006); Bosnian (15 June 2006); Turkish (28 March – 4 April 2008); Lithuanian (11 March 2012); Catalan (1 October 2015); Slovenian (8 November 2015); Esperanto (23 February 2016); Finnish (25 March 2017); Chinese (14 October 2018); Azerbaijani (9 March 2019); Croatian (14 November 2019); Armenian (15 February 2020); Arabic (11 September 2020) |
1,000 | Indonesian (20–24 May 2010); Limburgish (5 July 2012); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (2 October 2014); Greek (29 March 2015); Hungarian (22 May 2015); Sundanese (7 July 2015); Dutch (11 September 2015); Korean (20 January 2019) |
500 | Japanese (5 May 2006); Hungarian (27 March 2007); Simple English (29 August 2009); Swedish (29 March 2015); Gujarati (21 March 2017); Serbian (17 August 2017); Galician (12 December 2017); Latin (2 October 2018); Sakha (19 April 2019); Tamil (16 June 2019); Urdu (6 October 2020) |
200 | Kurdish (29 July – 29 August 2006); Welsh (5–8 February 2010); Telugu (24 November 2011); Malayalam (29 March 2015); Norwegian (bokmål) (29 March 2015); Kannada (12 June 2015); Basque (12 February 2016); Romanian (25 October 2016); Belarusian (18 June 2017); Albanian (13 August 2019); Hindi (11 November 2019); Vietnamese (2 April 2021) |
100 | Danish (29 March 2015); Icelandic (29 March 2015); Georgian (29 March 2015); Sanskrit (29 March 2015); Uzbek (7 June 2020) |
Wikibooks
Exact milestone dates shown below are usually from announcements made on this page. Date ranges are based on the page history of Wikibooks/Table.
Milestone | Languages (with dates milestones reached) |
---|---|
90,000 | English (7 June 2021) |
80,000 | |
70,000 | |
60,000 | |
50,000 | |
40,000 | |
30,000 | German (2 October 2021) |
20,000 | Hungarian (15 February 2018) |
15,000 | French (21 July 2018); Italian (18 September 2021) |
10,000 | Japanese (31 May 2014); Portuguese (15 February 2018); Vietnamese (23 January 2022) |
5,000 | Spanish (28 March – 4 April 2010); Dutch (11–21 April 2010); Polish (28–30 June 2010) |
2,000 | Albanian (24 April 2008); Finnish (18–24 November 2009); Catalan (30 December 2011); Indonesian (22 September 2012); Persian (30 May 2015); Chinese (7 April 2017); Hebrew (15 February 2018); Azerbaijani (22 March 2019); Russian (21 August 2019) |
1,000 | Czech (3–18 April 2009); Swedish (8–17 February 2010); Danish (4–7 February 2011); Korean (20 April 2011); Serbian (24 March 2014); Galician (15 February 2018); Thai (30 January 2020); Basque (12 June 2020); Hindi (13 June 2020); Bashkir (1 July 2020); Ukrainian (10 February 2021) |
500 | Tamil (28 August 2011); Sanskrit (5 February 2017); Arabic (15 February 2018); Croatian (15 February 2018); Norwegian (Bokmål) (15 February 2018); Turkish (15 February 2018); Slovak (15 February 2018); Esperanto (14 April 2019) |
200 | Lithuanian (24 June – 12 July 2007); Bulgarian (11–16 January 2007); Simple English (19 August – 9 September 2007); Greek (16–22 October 2009); Sinhalese (24–27 June 2010); Limburgian (13 November – 12 December 2010); Tatar (4–7 February 2011); Malay (9 May 2013); Bengali (14 November 2015); Urdu (16 February 2016); Icelandic (15 February 2018); Georgian (15 February 2018); Macedonian (15 February 2018); Romanian (15 February 2018); Slovenian (10 March 2020); Tagalog (7 January 2021) |
100 | Anglo-Saxon (27 October 2005); Estonian (9 September – 2 October 2007); Kazakh (7 April 2012); Khmer (7 March 2013); Belarusian (31 August 2018); Interlingua (7 April 2019); Latin (6 October 2019); Malayalam (23 April 2020); Marathi (20 January 2021); Telugu (15 July 2021) |
Wikisource
Exact milestone dates shown below are usually from announcements made on this page. Date ranges are based on the page history of Wikisource/Table (back to 24 September 2008) or Wikisource (before that).
Milestone | Languages (with dates milestones reached) |
---|---|
900,000 | Polish (10 May 2021); English (15 October 2021) |
800,000 | |
700,000 | |
600,000 | |
500,000 | Russian (4 April 2019); German (18 December 2021) |
400,000 | French (10 October 2020) |
300,000 | Chinese (28 January 2019) |
200,000 | Hebrew (25 July 2021) |
150,000 | Italian (2 September 2020) |
100,000 | Spanish (7 February 2015) |
90,000 | |
80,000 | Ukrainian (6 August 2021); Arabic (11 August 2021) |
70,000 | |
60,000 | |
50,000 | Czech (11 March 2021) |
40,000 | |
30,000 | Portuguese (25 June 2017); Gujarati (3 August 2020); Multilingual (13 August 2020); Serbian (12 February 2021) |
20,000 | Persian (3 September 2011); Hungarian (10 May 2012); Swedish (16 October 2020); Korean (25 October 2021); Malayalam (12 December 2021) |
15,000 | Bengali (22 June 2018); Sanskrit (15 July 2019); Armenian (24 November 2019); Slovenian (18 May 2020); Telugu (31 July 2020); Tamil (29 December 2020); Turkish (18 December 2021) |
10,000 | Finnish (5 April 2017); Greek (25 June 2017); Vietnamese (6 February 2019); Japanese (1 March 2019); Neapolitan (21 August 2019); Latin (20 August 2021) |
5,000 | Croatian (19 August – 28 September 2006); Romanian (14 February – 20 March 2007); Thai (10 May 2012); Catalan (21 November 2015); Dutch (8 January 2016); Azerbaijani (25 July 2016); Breton (29 August 2016); Kannada (14 November 2017); Norwegian (Bokmål) (3 April 2019); Esperanto (6 June 2020); Hindi (21 November 2021); Belarusian (28 November 2021) |
2,000 | Yiddish (25 October – 23 November 2009); Venetian (10 May 2012); Icelandic (11 March 2013); Indonesian (29 August 2013); Danish (19 May 2016); Estonian (13 November 2016); Bulgarian (27 April 2017); Piedmontese (25 July 2018); Marathi (15 May 2020); Assamese (11 July 2020); Ligurian (1 August 2020); Balinese (1 August 2021) |
1,000 | Limburgian (10 May 2012); Macedonian (10 May 2012); Lithuanian (17 April 2020); Basque (11 November 2020); Walloon (27 February 2021); Oriya (10 May 2021); Punjabi (31 July 2021); Javanese (17 September 2021); Welsh (26 September 2021) |
500 | Sakha (1 April 2011); Alemannic (30 May 2012); Bosnian (6 June 2012); Galician (2 March 2018) |
200 | Slovak (29 August 2017) |
100 |
Wikinews
Exact milestone dates shown below are usually from announcements made on this page. Date ranges are based on the page history of Wikinews/Table (back to 24 September 2008) or Wikinews (before that).
Milestone | Languages (with dates milestones reached) |
---|---|
1,000,000 | Russian (14 July 2021) |
900,000 | |
800,000 | |
700,000 | |
600,000 | |
500,000 | |
400,000 | |
300,000 | |
200,000 | |
150,000 | |
100,000 | |
90,000 | |
80,000 | |
70,000 | |
60,000 | |
50,000 | Serbian (17 December 2018) |
40,000 | |
30,000 | |
20,000 | English (13 December 2013); French (1 March 2018); Portuguese (15 March 2021); Chinese (1 May 2021) |
15,000 | Polish (9 April 2020) |
10,000 | German (3–23 January 2011); Spanish (19 May 2016); Italian (24 October 2020) |
5,000 | Czech (16 July 2017); Arabic (8 February 2018) |
2,000 | Swedish (27 March 2006); Tamil (23 February 2012); Catalan (18 May 2012); Greek (15 August 2012); Dutch (5 July 2017) |
1,000 | Romanian (28 December 2010); Persian (14 July 2011); Turkish (27 November 2012); Ukrainian (3 June 2013); Japanese (8 September 2014); Finnish (1 March 2019); Limburgish (30 October 2019) |
500 | Norwegian (19–20 February 2009); Albanian (18–24 March 2011); Esperanto (26 September 2017); Korean (6 June 2020) |
200 | Bosnian (1–3 November 2010); Hebrew (29 March 2015); Hungarian (29 March 2015) |
100 |
Wikiversity
Exact milestone dates shown below are usually from announcements made on this page. Date ranges are based on the page history of Wikiversity/Table (back to 24 September 2008) or Wikiversity (before that).
Milestone | Languages (with dates milestones reached) |
---|---|
50,000 | German (5 March 2020) |
40,000 | |
30,000 | |
20,000 | English (5 April 2015) |
15,000 | French (27 June 2019) |
10,000 | |
5,000 | Chinese (27 January 2021) |
2,000 | Czech (23 June 2011); Italian (18 May 2013); Russian (29 March 2015); Multilingual Portal (7 March 2016); Portuguese (15 August 2018) |
1,000 | Spanish (7–28 February 2011) |
500 | Swedish (6 February 2013); Finnish (13 March 2013); Slovenian (26 October 2016); Arabic (1 July 2020) |
200 | Greek (4–9 October 2008); Hindi (23 December 2017); Korean (12 December 2018) |
100 | Japanese (15 August – 6 September 2009) |
Wikivoyage
Milestone | Languages (with dates milestones reached) |
---|---|
30,000 | English (20 August 2020) |
20,000 | |
15,000 | German (25 January 2016) |
10,000 | Polish (1 July 2020); Italian (26 June 2021) |
5,000 | French (19 March 2015); Chinese (13 February 2020) |
2,000 | Dutch (15 January 2013); Portuguese (15 January 2013); Russian (25 July 2013); Persian (17 November 2014); Hebrew (20 February 2015); Spanish (16 March 2016) |
1,000 | Swedish (15 January 2013); Vietnamese (11 August 2013); Greek (4 May 2016); Finnish (17 December 2016); Esperanto (12 June 2021) |
500 | Romanian (18 February 2013); Ukrainian (28 September 2015); Bengali (27 June 2018); Japanese (12 December 2021) |
200 | Pashto (9 June 2018); Turkish (21 January 2021) |
100 |
Wikimedia Commons
Milestone | Date milestone reached |
---|---|
80,000,000 | 11 January 2022 |
70,000,000 | 16 March 2021 |
60,000,000 | 16 March 2020 |
50,000,000 | 7 October 2018 (Village Pump announcement) |
40,000,000 | 21 June 2017 (Village Pump announcement) |
30,000,000 | 13 January 2016 (Village Pump discussion) |
25,000,000 | 11 March 2015 (Village Pump announcement) |
20,000,000 | 25 January 2014 |
16,000,000 | 1 February 2013 (Wikimedia News item) |
15,000,000 | 4 December 2012 (Wikimedia News item) |
14,000,000 | 22 September 2012 (Wikimedia News item) |
13,000,000 | 5 June 2012 (Wikimedia News item) |
12,000,000 | 13 January 2012 (Wikimedia News item) |
11,000,000 | 15 September 2011 (Village Pump announcement) |
10,000,000 | 16 April 2011 (press release) |
9,000,000 | 23 February 2011 |
5,000,000 | 2 September 2009 |
4,000,000 | 4 March 2009 (press release) |
3,500,000 | 19 November 2008 |
3,000,000 | 16 July 2008 (press release) |
2,500,000 | 25 February 2008 |
2,000,000 | 8 October 2007 (press release) |
1,750,000 | 11 August 2007 |
1,700,000 | late July 2007 |
1,600,000 | 1 July 2007 |
1,500,000 | 25 May 2007 (Wikimedia News item) |
1,000,000 | 30 November 2006 (press release) |
600,000 | 15 May 2006 (Wikimedia News item) |
500,000 | 25 March 2006 |
100,000 | 24 May 2005 (press release) |
1,000 | 5 October 2004 (Wikimedia News item) |
(creation) | 7 September 2004 (Wikimedia News item) |
Wikispecies
Milestone | Date milestone reached |
---|---|
700,000 | 8 December 2019 |
600,000 | 30 October 2018 (Village Pump announcement) |
500,000 | 7 January 2017 (Village Pump announcement) |
400,000 | 16 June 2014 |
350,000 | 13 January 2013 (Village Pump announcement) |
300,000 | 22 October 2011 |
250,000 | January 2011 |
200,000 | 10 October 2009 |
150,000 | 8 September 2008 (Village Pump announcement) |
100,000 | 20 May 2007 (announcement) |
75,000 | 10 October 2006 (Village Pump announcement) |
(creation) | 13 September 2004 (1st edit) |
Wikidata
Milestone | Date milestone reached |
---|---|
90,000,000 | 15 October 2020 |
80,000,000 | 22 March 2020 |
70,000,000 | 8 December 2019 |
60,000,000 | 14 September 2019 |
50,000,000 | 29 August 2018 |
40,000,000 | 5 December 2017 |
30,000,000 | 31 July 2017 |
25,000,000 | 23 January 2017 |
20,000,000 | 3 September 2016 |
15,000,000 | 27 October 2015 |
10,000,000 | 15 April 2013 |
5,000,000 | 2 March 2013 |
4,000,000 | 15 February 2013 |
3,000,000 | 24 January 2013 |
2,000,000 | 4 January 2013 |
1,000,000 | 15 December 2012 |
50,000 | 14 November 2012 |
30,000 | 12 November 2012 |
20,000 | 10 November 2012 |
10,000 | 3 November 2012 |
(creation) | 30 October 2012 News announcement |
See also
- List of Wikipedias
- List of Wiktionaries
- Wikiquote Statistics
- List of Wikibooks
- Wikinews Statistics
- List of Wikisources
- List of Wikiversities
- List of largest wikis
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Linux has the penguin. MySQL has the dolphin. O'Reilly has a whole zoo. Every successful open source / open content project seems to have a mascot - should Wikipedia have a mascot in addition to the logo?
No mascot, please!
If you don't want a mascot
- Support: 26 Youandme (his POV: words embracing the Earth is enough and it is a beautiful logo, especially on Meta) -- Fonzy (now i think about it I dont think WIkipedia should have a mascot) -- Paullusmagnus (Mascots have an inherent playfulness in them that is fine for most projects, but dangerous ground for an encylcopedia) -- Neolux (as per Paullusmagnus, also if there are too many different "brands" for the one concept, there is a risk of losing the identity of the concept all together. Is wikipedia represented by the logo, by the mascot, by the word itself, by the square quotes...? Stick to one brand and utilise that to it's full potential.) --Buxul the square quotes and a logo are enough -- Gutza (see Paullusmagnus, plus: Why? What's the real use of a mascot? Also see my comments on the talk page) -- Tali -- Fruggo -- Wolfram -- Elrond Nólatári -- Gkl -- Ruiz 08:54, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC) -- Andrewlevine 05:48, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC) -- Ich (The Encyclopedia Britannica doesn't have one, but it's got a symbol (the thistle) and seems to have done pretty well.) -- Nealmcb, Hapsiainen -- Frazzydee -- mascot serves no purpose/an animal popular or recognizable in one culture may be tabboo, feared or unrecognized in another.Pedant 23:31, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) --Ascánder 23:52, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC) --68.64.9.10 01:22, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC) --81.229.227.212 15:18, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC) -- user:zanimum139.62.185.215 02:40, 23 February 2006 (UTC) -- Tempshill2 18:50, 31 March 2006 (UTC)--18.95.7.164 21:10, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
- I think a mascot would take away from the beauty of the Wikipedia logo. The Jade Knight 23:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Moved out: Sverdrup (Symbols are better, esp with the international nature of Wikipedia in though) Redecided, I want a mascot ✏ Sverdrup 15:05, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Some rationales from the above voters:
- The Wikipedia logo already beautifully conveys the earth itself, and diverse human cultures around the globe, as the "mascot" of Wikipedia. A different mascot would compete with the logo and dilute the value of the Wikipedia brand.
- All, or nearly all, open-source mascots look very amateurish. So do all the mascots below as of this writing. Granted, Wikipedia editors are mostly amateurs, but openly embracing amateur content decreases the value of the brand. Some editors (including me) would be less likely to contribute to the project if we're going to brand ourselves with a mascot that shouts "amateurville". (Tempshill2 18:50, 31 March 2006 (UTC))
Mascot, please!
If you want a mascot.
It could be used in the logo, printed on T-shirts or kept as a housepet. But what should it be? A fish, a bird, an insect, a mammal, a reptile, a virus? This page is for collecting ideas. At any time, feel free to express your support for a particular mascot by putting your name under it.
It would probably be nice if the mascot somehow represented the spirit of Wikipedia, e.g.:
- social
- massively cooperative
- controversial
- chaotic
- growing
- ambitious
- infectious
- curious
Mascot Name Once the mascot is chosen, a name may need to be given to it see: Wikipedia mascot/name
Suggested mascots This is en:Approval voting so you can add your name next to as many choices as you want.
Alphabetical order
Please keep entries in alphabetical order so that people can easily find and refer to potential mascots. Please do not add new options unless you get them seconded by one other Wikipedian. The current options are:
- amoeba
- Amorphous blob
- Anglerfish
- beaver
- Bob Dole
- centipede
- Clifford Clavin
- coyote
- honeybees
- leafcutter ants
- meerkat
- mice
- monkey with typewriter
- octopus
- otter
- owl
- platypus
- puzzle piece
- Pythia
- sand puppy
- serpiente
- slime mold
- stick insect
- Tardigrade / Tardígrado
- termites
- The_Thinker
- Weasel
- Wikipe-tan
Amoeba
- Support: 2 Torombol --
Ola_H --
- Rationale: I don't know if it's being used by another GNU project, but I really like an amoeba for mascot. It is chaotic, it is growing, becoming something that nobody could know cooperating with other amoebas, it could be infectious, curious and very social.
- Image: I don't have it, but I will like an amoeba with glasses.
"Please do not add new options unless you get them seconded by one other Wikipedian." Sorry for not following the instructions.
Amorphous blob
- "Wikipedia", the Amorphous blob!
- Support: Node
Anglerfish
- I think the mascot should be one of those tripped-out deepsea fish with the glowing ball of light. Wiki the Anglerfish, bringing light to the depths of the vast ocean of human knowledge. Yah, thatd be tite. User:Lir
beaver
design by Zanimum
- Support: 3 I am Jack's username -- Zanimum -- mmasaki (18.252.2.100)
- Image ideas: [1], Beaver_logo.gif
- Rationale:
- build dams, sociable, beneficial to the environment, instrumental in creating habitats for many aquatic organisms, maintaining the water table at an appropriate level and controlling flooding and erosion, nocturnal, extremely productive (like us)
- Problems:
- Maybe it wouldn't be such a good idea to have a shot of a beaver as the logo -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick
- Maybe why? Maybe isn't a reason. -- user:zanimum
- Maybe it wouldn't be such a good idea to have a shot of a beaver as the logo -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick
Centipede
(the "Wikipede")
- Support: 45
203.129.195.132 12:15, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC) snoyes -- Maveric149 (compare en:centipede and en:millipede) -- Sannse -- Elian -- Enchanter -- Ducker -- ILVI -- Jazmin --- TakuyaMurata -- Marumari -- Stephen Gilbert (forget the bees; I want a Stevertigo-drawn Wikipede, baby!) -- MyRedDice (Stephen convinced me of the merits of this, and Stevert's sketch is just so cute) -- Ashibaka (haha, yeah) -- Nichtich -- Kwekubo -- aravindet -- Webkid -- Nanobug (yeah, bugs!) -- Stan Shebs -- Cjmnyc -- Angela -- Kalki -- Fantasy-- MattE -- Fuzheado 08:10, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC) -- CyberMaus (Converted bee-lover thinks Stevertigo's concept is super) -- Nolendil -- Dori -- Marley -- Jeff8765 -- 69.209.243.232 02:23, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC) User:Ilyanep (coming from a guy) such a cute sketch (the one to the right with the centipede reading the books caught my attention) Tmh -- [2] -- Kraut1138 (the mate gourd really does it for me) -- ✏ Sverdrup 15:07, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC), Stevertigos concept is very good -- 194.158.209.57 23:23, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC) great -- Bobbyandck, very nice, I love the little mate in the hand in the bottom left, I wonder where comes the idea to put that, it is exactly that the drink I have when I want to study michael180 I like it -- [en:User:Philwelch|Philwelch] I prefer the [3] version, as it has that sort of Atlas connotation --Bjwebb 16:31, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC) I just love wikipede -- Adam78 beside the fact it's really cute, it would perhaps help make people realize the importance of resources Super Sam --User:Dario vet/Sign 17:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC) Original concept by Jay Bowks (User:ILVI) on the wikipedia mailing list (recognise the "W" shape): Holycharly 14:13, 8 September 2005 (UTC) - we French froggies had the same in the eighties at TV #2 (Antenne 2) which was a silly centipede that continuously lost its spherical components (it was a mongrel of 1000 of them). Liked it. -- LifeMega 19:23, 4 December 2005 (UTC) I love the Wikipede. The name sounds like Wikipedian, and the many arms represent the many people contributing. Naha Great play on words! It has so much personality and potential. It jumps right off the page! Owls and monkeys are already way overused as logos around the world. The ant just seems too plain. Lets be different!
- Images - [4], [5], [6], , Elian's version, w:Image:wikipedesketch1.png, another alternate version
- Rationale: legs co-operate, great (disarmingly cute) images. Controversial (not Disneyish). Very agile and can bend this way or that to get past obstacles. Centipedes will fight off bigger insects or spiders, will decimate cockroaches. Millipedes can roll themselves into a tight little ball when threatened and avoid injury and at times roll speedily away from danger. "wikipede" is a nice pun.
- Problems: negative/creepy connotations for some (see images above) - drawings are good though. Do they co-operate enough? Name "Wikipede" hard to internationalise.
Chick coming out of a Wikipedia Jigsaw Egg
The chicken would be coming out of an egg (that is made out of the jigsaw puzzle pieces of the Wikipedia Globe). It shows how nice cute and tender Wikipedia is... And the growth that lies ahead and reminds us of the chicken and egg problem.... The Wikipedia was born first or the Wikipedians ;-) SudarshanP 16:40, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
- This is a mockup of a mascot for Wikipedia or Wikidata. Part of the image is derived from [7] . Someone with good artistic skill can improve on this "theme" to make it completely legal. Apart from being a candidate for Wikipedia Mascot... I think it could be a candidate for the logo of Wikidata or Semantic Wikipedia. The Wikipedians construct the Jigsaw Egg(Wikipedia), piece by piece, it hatches and out comes the Semantic Wikipedia(Wikidata). It represents the birth of something much more than what went into it. SudarshanP 18:37, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
Comment I like the idea, but the chick would have to be redrawn to look a lot less like tweety pie before I could fully support. 81.109.242.195 22:23, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
- Some chicktoons for an artist to draw inspiration from...[8]SudarshanP
Clifford Clavin
A trivia king who had a database of oddball facts in his head, and is human so he's more personable than a bug. A possible image. Staxringold 19:19, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Support: 9
- Staxringold 19:19, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Bduke: He's a US character, yes, but well-known internationally. 82.33.77.141 21:27, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- 70.160.188.138 21:28, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Speaks his mind - calls a spade a spade. Captain Courageous personified. Brave and fearless in spite of tyranny. Charrrrrrrrrr..........ge!!!--Wilfred Pau 09:52, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Creators of Cheers may very likely give free use of his character as mascot. He is a fountain of knowledge and the show is watched all over much of the world. Black arrow 03:55, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Hey I support, userbox was brainchild of Rlevse and myself. Coffeeboy 13:01, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Jkfp2004 16:07, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Ehh, it's a little-known fact that Clifford Clavin knows everything about everything. I support him as mascot. --24.178.88.111 23:53, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- Yes!--71.38.133.1 02:20, 22 April 2006 (UTC) 00:06, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose:1
- A purely US character as far as I can see. Any mascot has to be international. --Bduke 21:12, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- Cheers = Trademarked. Wikimedia = Free. No. -- user:zanimum
Coyote
- Support: Calliope
- Rationale: Coyotes are curious (will investigate human activity when they roam into residential areas); controversial (farmers and ranchers tend to hate them but other people like them); growing (the range of coyote territory has expanded greatly in recent years and keeps expanding); cooperative (in the way they raise pups and hunt together to bring down animals they couldn't kill alone); ambitious in their search for food and in tackling animals much larger than themselves; and social in the way they vocalize to communicate with other coyotes and travel in packs. (You could also call them infectious, but coyotes don't get rabies as often as domestic dogs.) And yes, coyotes are very cute and good to draw.
- Why a coyote when you could have a wolf? -- samsara
Honey bees
- Support: 10 Mahongue -- Yann -- Elian -- Fantasy -- MarcS -- MyRedDice -- User:AstroNomer (though I don't like very much the particular honeybee now displayed, there should be a second "design" vote) -- Lorenzarius (The idea is very good, as the WikiBees can represent the natures of Wikipedia quite well: lots of hardworking bees gather honey(knowledge) and bring it back to the nest(Wikipedia) to service all the other bees. It would be better if there're more sketches.) -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick (like the ants, this is touch and go; hardworking but also drones and hoarders) -- Cjmnyc --
- Rationale: Work cooperatively, have a Queen (Jimbo rules!), collect nectar (collect info), take that back to the hive, and turn that into honey (articles). Very positive symbol. Wikipedia resembles a humming hive of busy workers making something beautiful (honey=free quality information resource). Bees communicate well with each other, and there is some evidence that they work with a type of collective intelligence. The nectar collection also pollinates flowers so that they can reproduce. See en:Honeybee, [11], [12]
- Problems: They sting. Some people are allergic and/or afraid of them. Not very cute (unless drawn cartoony as above). Done to death elsewhere? The 'honey pot' is in english. Bah.
Leaf-cutter ants (and Miwiki project)
http://www.edunetconnect.com/cat/rainf/images/leafcutt.gif
File:Miwiki the ant.png
Miwiki*, designed specially for Wikipedia
- Support: 35
Maveric149 (second choice - Go Wikipede!) -- User:Anthere (I can't help it) -- Stephen Gilbert -- Ducker -- Nicolas -- MicAttAck (or a regular ant?) -- Menchi (tiny, but powerful!) -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick (on balance yes, but hesitantly) -- MB (This is perfect, or the bee, but definately an insect) -- Oliezekat (i started to design an alternate ant [[13]] that i had named 'Miwiki') -- Paullusmagnus (Ants are serious and can't be made to look cute, besides having many Wikipedian characteristics) -- Fantasy -- Looxix -- Med (great artwork olie) -- Teresag (I don't know, Pm, Miwiki is kind of cute. The ant is appropos; industrious & controversial (Are they good or bad? Do they build or bite? Or both?).) -- Traroth (Ants are hard workers and collaborative. And Miwiki is cute !) -- Ryan Cable -- Toby Bartels -- Sorsis -- —Eloquence -- Aoineko (2 ants may be better) -- Kurt Jansson -- Ebricca -- ArnoLagrange (Miwiki a été battue au concours de logos mais elle a sa place comme mascotte) -- User:LittleDan -- Vincent Ramos ??????? -- Piolinfax (1st choice) but I'd rather like a lot of them (maybe leaving a intermingled track of colourful lettres behind) -- Erik Zachte Well, actually I favour the Ant Colony, which as Hofstadter taught us, is a superanimal, rather loosely structured though, with all its 'body cells' crawling around. But ant will do. -- Hemmer -- Anthony DiPierro -- Aphaia -- TJ (definitely a better name than wikipede, and I like the concept better, too) -- EnginGunduz --Ocicatmuseum Ants are great because it takes many people to create a wikipedia. -- Tiberian -- Traroth Go Miwiki go ! --
- While I oppose a mascot in general, I think this is the best of the lot. The Jade Knight 23:17, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
- Rationale: collaborative, hard working, strength in numbers. Images - [14], [15], [16] (one ant could be carrying a cut leaf in the shape of a W)
Ant's are the ueber-cooperative animals. They work together for a common goal, they are most important to any forrest they are in. with their multiple feet ant antennae they are bound to make a good picture as a mascot much like the centipede that reads. An ant would be the perfect Wiki-Pet :-)
(*) Miwiki is an artwork of french workgroup on french Wikipedia. All products about Miwiki on fr:Utilisateur:Oliezekat/Miwiki and discuss fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Oliezekat/Miwiki.
Miwiki was suggested on several logos, such as :
File:Miwiki bouquin1 small.png(n°3) (n°17) File:Miwiki logo5 small.png(n°132)
Meerkat
- Support: 6 Maveric149 (read why the meerkat would be a great choice here) -- Cassini -- GGano -- Menchi (it's so odd and cute!) -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick (actually there is a meerkat-like critter in Southern Africa that builds these massive pointy mounds, that would be my suggestion. Does anyone know what animal I mean?) -- Angela
One support vote from Finland, just adorable meerkat. -- user:128.214.205.5
- Should unsigned anons be counted? -- user:zanimum

- Stevertigo - I like this animal... Kinda racconish, with a lot of weasel in it :) so i did some sketches
- Problem: O'Reilly already uses this for their meerkat service. http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/
- Well, O'Reilly uses so many animals... Would it really be problem? I really like the idea of a meerkat. They are cute, cooperative animals, and at times a little strange. -- Costyn
- different problem The Lion King has a meercat... do we want Disney horning in on this?
- it looks creepy
Mice
- Rationale: There are mice everywhere there are Wikipedians. Reference to the Hitchikers Guide to galaxy.
monkey behind a typewriter
see: en:Infinite monkey theorem
- Support: 11 Maveric149 -- TUF-KAT -- Chuck SMITH (this just too cool!) -- Dachshund -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick (I guess...) -- Jimregan (for C|N>K value mostly) -- Cjmnyc - sk, Toby Bartels - funny, self-aware and confident KarlWick -- Ich (I vote either this or none at all) -- Ashibaka (YES) -- Ground 15:12, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC) -- Habj 22:01, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
http://pl.wikipedia.org/upload/6/60/Wojpob.jpg
- Rationale: "10,000 monkeys with 10,000 typewriters will never produce Shakespeare" [20]
- Problems: Wil Wheaton Dot Net uses a slogan based on this (although not a logo).
- I doubt Wil will care. -- Stephen Gilbert
- He has actually already endorsed Wikpedia, see here.
- Sure he has, I originally came to Wikipedia by following that very link! My objection was just on the grounds that it's his site that I think of when I think of monkeys and typewriters. But, of course, whatever we choose is likely to be somewhere else. 'Twas just that this one happens to be one of my favourite sites :) -- sannse 18:57 Feb 26, 2003 (UTC)
- Wheaton is just using the old idea of an infinite number of monkeys working at an infinite number of typewriters banging out a copy of Hamlet. It's used many places. -- Stephen Gilbert
There used to be a monkey logo at Logo suggestions--humorous logos, however the images were stored offsite and have vanished.
- That one, along with most of the others, are back. If anyone has copies of the missing ones, please upload them.
I agree strongly with the symbols evocked higher, but this would be so fun I cannont resist to be pro Jul
If the monkey is chosen, it would look best typing with its feet! Not only would it be funny (even funnier than a regular old monkey), it would be a good reason for explaining why Wikipedia isn't perfect.
I think that the monkeys working on it would be a definite show of the collaboration in the process of creating the wikipedia. Of course, thousands of monkeys, in addition to writing shakespeare also produce a fair amount of crap. I don't really like the idea of having a mascot at all; I feel a photograph, such as the one given, would be better. It would function as a graphic illustrating the wikipedia, not some kind of cutesy mascot that makes it look unprofessional.
Support. 24.190.96.44 14:43, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Choosing the monkey behind a typewriter as a mascot means a certain amount of self irony and distance to yourself and what you are doing. I like it. /Habj 22:01, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I do not know about a monkey behind a typewriter for wikipedia but three monkeys fighting over one typewriter would be great for anarchopedia.
Octopus
- Support: 5 Angela - Piolinfax (My second choice. Anyway, I wouldn't make an schematic octopus but a massive-like, full of tangles tentacles maybe with colourful letters as suckers) - TJ (2nd choice, though the lack of a better picture is a bit unfortunate) - Lapinmies (I don't know how to add a link to my userpage :I )
[source for info on octopus www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/octopus.html [ first hit in google for octopus]but ideas already developed by me.] - Tmh I like that picture enough :) --65.172.213.123 16:44, 12 August 2005 (UTC)Octopi are cute! So I'm in!
- The octopus has a soft body with a well-developed brain, similar to a human's. It is known to be very intelligent.[ Analogy- wikipedia- amorphous/ undefined/ ambiguous body and intelligent mind]
- Octopi hunt primarily at night or on dark dreary days, thus this is the best time to see them out and about[Analogy- wikipedians? moonlighting [ I think that's what Westerners call working on alternate job at night?]
- The octopus seizes its prey with its eight long arms. These arms bear two rows of suckers each. The hundreds of suckers that line their arms help the octopus to hold on to almost anything.[ Analogy- no explanations necessary- wikipedians grab on to lots of info and there is no corner unreached, second important reason why I suggested this mascot]
- Octopus head= wikipedia, tentacles= wikipedians.If an octopus loses one of its tentacles, it will soon grow another one in the same place.[ Analogy- most important reason why I chose octopus for wikipedia- bad users are banned- new ones are taken in, good ones are retained... and so on- there is an element of regeneration and constant renewal, and the idea of the whole being more than [and more important than] the sum of its parts]
- minus points- is there an element of cruelty in the catching of prey and tentacles?
my opinion: No! If the tentacles are the members, then we members are sucking up information! We are the tentacles catching the prey, knowledge!--65.172.213.123 16:44, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
- Octopus is like a spider. Google is using a spider. Spider collects information and octopus could do the same. But Wikipedia's mascot shouldn't be spider coz it's already used idea.
Will work on a graphic for the above, an octopus will look cute abstracted KRS
- (Local image Image:Octopus.jpg commented out, as it was deleted for having no source. Korg 15:01, 13 June 2008 (UTC))
Otter
- Rationale: There are several species, but perhaps freshwater (river) otters might be the best choice. They embody all of the qualities listed above with perhaps special emphasis on playful and curious. The appearance and behavior is appealing at least to humans and other otters, and though rather incompatible with an orderly environment due to their playfulness and curiosity, they are not known to be vicious, hostile, or agressive. Regrettably, unlike centipedes or milipedes, they have only a few feet, thus not stressing the "...pedia" aspect of Wikipedia. Perhaps this could be remedied by adopting an appropriate name, eg Pede, the Otter? Public domain images, a la those used by O'Reilly Publishers for their covers might be appropriate, or perhaps a cartoon akin in spirit to that used for Tux (the Linux mascot) would be better. Artists are invited to have a go. The aspect to be emphasized in such a cartoon otter is a impish curiosity, with perhaps a touch of satisfaction at recent excellent meal of insufficiently quick fish or newly found understanding.
- Support:
- Points in favor:
- Oppose:
- Problems:
Owl
- Support: 4 Dan Koehl -- Elian -- Joerg Feuerhake -- Angela
- Rationale: An old symbol for knowledge and searching for facts. An owl head could easily be integrated in the logotype. Maybe boring but respected and traditional. The eyebrows could form a W shape too.
- Problems: Encyclopedia.com and Wikinfo use a cartoon owl as their logos. Also, owls work alone.
- Owls aren't actually all that intelligent, I've heard. -- Kwekubo
- Overused!!! 63.155.186.52 03:27 25 Mar 2003 (UTC)
- Owl = knowledge as opposed to understanding, dogma, static, opposite of Wikipedia? -- samsara
Platypus
- Support: 7 GUllman -- TUF-KAT -- sannse (great reason! it has been one of early proposition for linux :) -- Jul -- User:Nerd -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick -- samsara
http://www.totcity.com/Parents/preschool/Coloring_book/In_the_ocean/platypus/platypus.gif http://www.julbox.net/platypus.gif (please backup somewhere else)
source : http://www.funet.fi/pub/Linux/doc/logos/
- Rationale: It most resembles "an animal designed by committee"
- Problems: The en:Darwin kernel uses a Donald Duck look-alike platypus named Hexley. Also, the Gnu has been remarked upon as an animal most likely built by committee, and it's an old free-software joke.
Puzzle piece
A new mascot idea (with the puzzle globe): the wikipedia puzzle piece. Like this one:
File:Wikipedia-sketch-tillwe Gutza01.png
Tillwe 20:11, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I like the above idea, looks like puzzle pieces are people holding hands... but I voted no mascot Pedant
Something similar from Spanish Wikipedia, by Comae.
- Support: 4
Tillwe -- Drbug(original) -- Ankur (Can be made a lil more cute, Demonstrates collaboration, related to Logo, Human like and yet a puzzle piece, Simple to redesign or animate, colourful RGB the primary colours, shades of RGB can be adopted by wikipedia for the main page, moving forward together, what not... :-) -- \Mikez 10:34, 10 May 2004 (UTC) (I was going to vote 'no mascot' - but then I saw this one. ;)
spirit of Wikipedia social, cooperative, growing.
Pythia
- So were the Sibyl and Cassandra -- See Delphic Research. -- Derek Ross 18:42, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Sibyl is almost as nerdishly obscure as Pythia, but due to my familiarity with the unsavory character "Sibil" in Jack Vance's book Araminta Station, I would not like "Sybil" as the mascot. The name "Cassandra" is too commonly used. JWSurf 19:27, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, these two names have been brought into the mainstream by J.K. Rowling: Sybil Trelawney is the Hogwarts Divination teacher, and Cassandra was her famous clairvoyant great-grandmother. User:The Noodle Incident
- Well Cassandra was my favourite female character from the Aeneid but since she was always correct but was never believed, she might not be the best choice as Wikipedia mascot. -- Derek Ross
against: wikipedia is the reverse of the oracle
Sand Puppy
(a.k.a. the "Naked mole rat")
- Support: 1 Kraut1138
- Rationale: Social and massively cooperative. Busy, chaotic colonies. Not easily contained (can chew through concrete). A mammalian alternative to ants and bees. Sand puppy sounds friendlier than naked mole rat.
- Problems: Not cute. Nearly blind.
I have a problem! there the ugliest thingon planet earth! - jedi of redwall
La Serpiente
El movimiento forma parte de la energía y de lo más íntimo de la materia: El movimiento es la energía y la materia.
Todas las capacidades y expectativas del conocimiento humano permanecen ligadas a la idea de movimiento.
La mascota que sugiero es la serpiente que mira una onda senoidal que representa el movimiento y al mismo tiempo la representa a ella misma.
Además la serpiente es femenina, como se intuye el futuro, y está estrechamente ligada al pasado del conocimiento de la humanidad (El Edén, Egipto, la medicina...)
En la representación, la fusión de la serpiente con los ejes cartesianos sugiere la unión entre las líneas rectas y curvas, la cruz y la luna, es decir la herencia del conocimiento de occidente unido con la de oriente.
please, if you´re able translate this into english, thanks, the author
[Here the translation into English]
Serpent, movement is part of the energy and most intimately of the matter: The movement is the energy and the matter.
All the capacities and expectations of the human knowledge remain bound to the movement idea.
The mascot that I suggest is the serpent that watches a sine wave that represents the movement and at the same time it represents herself.
In addition the serpent is feminine [in some cultures: note of the translator], as it is intuited the future, and closely is bound to the past of knowledge of humanity (Eden, Egypt, medicine...)
In the representation, the fusion of the serpent with the cartesian axes suggests the union between the straight and curved lines, the cross and the moon, meaning the inheritance of the knowledge of the West united with the one of east.
Mustard tree
- Support: 1 Node
- Weak support: user:zanimum
Comments
- Wikipedia should not be referred with any animal, because it is not a computer programme processing data as MySQL or Linux. Therefore instread of fauna, it should be part of flora, because it is data more than just a programme processing data. -- Node
- I don't get your point. Programs use animals, so projects and organizations shouldn't? -- user:zanimum
- The second problem is, that if Wikipedia is animal, it could become in some circumtances be an unacceptable animal like pig (for exampe one of Walt Disney's three little pigs http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/pigs/mstory.htm ) in Jewish or Moslem cultures. A red cross and red half moon are examples of the risk. -- Node
- Exactly why the centipede, in the lead in terms of votes, is beyond being simply a deplorable choice. It's an equal opportunity turn off. While no religion or culture is offended by the tree, mustard gas started all the chemical warfare that's killed many thousands internationally. -- user:zanimum
- How exactly is a mustard tree identifiable iconicly, versus a spruce or apple? If it simply looks like a tree, then the uninformed won't have a clue to the reasoning behind it, no matter how sound. -- user:zanimum
- Wikipedism is a belief in rationality and it is neo-encyclopedism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedism
- What? People have based their personal spirituality on Wikipedia? -- user:zanimum
- Luke 17:5 (NIV) The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you."
- Bible or any religious reasoning = ignoring other cultural groups. -- user:zanimum
- In Canada, mustard is a ground-level plant, rather like a weed. Are these plants both related in any way? -- user:zanimum
- It is low in cholesterol, fats, and saturated fat. -- user:zanimum
slime mold
- Support: 3 User:Anthere (these were too cute...) -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick -- has multiple phases; should appeal to anyone who grew up with en:Pokemon. Sj 10:16, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
- Rationale: Their progress goes much in the same heuristic way as the wikipedians. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick
Tardigrade / Tardígrado
The Tardigrade is the strongest animal ever. Don't we want our ideology to be deathless? Don't have the image yet, but you can look about this animal here in wikipedia.
El Tardígrado es el animal más fuerte de todos. ¿No queremos acaso que nuestra ideología perdure? Aún no tengo la imagen, pero pueden averiguar sobre este animal aquí en wikipedia.
Termites
- Support: 3 anthere (that make a lot of sense) -- Ducker -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick
- Rationale: Termites are co-operative animals. In some ways we are like them in our work on the House of Intellectual Property. They are so maligned that there is little chance that anyone has chosen them as a mascot before.
- Problems: Termites are known as destroyers, not builders. -- Stephen Gilbert
- Oh sure, termites are tremendous builders, but that's not commonly associated with them. I simply said they're known as destroyers. People tend to think of termites infesting buildings rather than building impressive structures. I like to think that Wikipedia is fighting repressive notions of "intellectual properity" by building something better, not by undermining what already exists. -- Stephen Gilbert
Weasel
Weasels are small cute and furry. Also inquisitive. William M. Connolley 11:06, 12 September 2005 (UTC).
But rather ferocious 61.230.79.157 00:28, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Whale, Killer
Modeled after Shamu, of course. 165.247.81.57 00:37, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Well, it is not the most cooperative animal, they do live in pods, but it isn't really a pack/herd/group animal. and what do you mean modeled after shamu? they all look like that. I have nothing against it, but nothing for it either, except that they look cool :-) - jedi of redwall
Wikipe-tan
- Support: 31 or so, judging from the commentary.
How about Wikipe-tan just like en:OS-tan.--192.192.170.2 04:39, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
- Campy anime mascot? Im in. 84.231.223.11 19:02, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- Sounds good to me. --68.6.29.194 02:15, 11 January 2006 (UTC) [theredstarswl]
- something like the one here? [22] if so, it has my vote --72.137.173.201 01:26, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- Um... it seems those images are GFDL... let's put them here, then. Ashibaka 04:18, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
- Officially lending my support to this mascot. Ashibaka 22:12, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
- ha, like this?(KJ and 虎兒)--KaurJmeb 15:39, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
- Lol I like this mascot ^_^ - Nykylaihellray
- looks like some sort of cartoon or aname :( i dont really like it... - jedi of redwall
- Would be nice -212.171.218.88 (too lazy to sign up, IDarbert on Italian Wikipedia)
- I like it, maybe Wiki-San? But it would make the site seem to anime-ish when Wikipedia holds such a wealth of other things -KomradeKomer
- Nobody's seriously going to give up the Wikipede, but I think maybe the foundation should make Wikipe-tan a second official mascot. Ashibaka 01:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
- Wiki tan is good >w< --Essolo 13:20, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
- Looks like the best of the lot. 65.95.241.14 23:37, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
- I Like this mascotte, it's sweet and beautiful Ciny2 (Ciny2 on Italian Wikipedia).
- Good!--Alex S.H. Lin(talk).tw 02:04, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- 萌え (Moé)! --Ellery 06:38, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- It is the best logo for wikipedia,and many otakus will enroll for her,haha.--阿儒 13:17, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
- ≧▽≦!!! --Luzi82 14:18, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
- She's even nicer in color. —da Pete 08:50, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
- Loli is the best.--Orion tw 04:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
- Wikipe-yes! xaosflux Talk 05:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
- Yes! She's GFDL'ed, she ties in perfectly with the Wikipedia logo, and she's already used by WP:anime. 216.94.87.40 03:56, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
- Cute! User:Alemart_the_Redeemer 03:19, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- frm:[Oni-ookami] this is nice whoever did it great job you got my vote
- Strong For - Aww, she's so cute! --220.237.51.205, a wikipedian. 02:08, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
- Strong for, also. Rickyrab 06:21, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- (+) - very vivid for wikipedia. Sicaral - talk 220.205.173.23
- Strong For Wikpe-tan is made of great and cute.75.132.198.130 03:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support What makes a symbol a good symbol? It has to be something that strongly relates to what it's supposed to represent, something unique enough as to gain recognition when it's encountered, something that evokes emotion, something simple and to the point. I'm no expert but I believe this thing here bests the Wikipede on all three categories and would make for a better first mascot, not second. AceMyth 02:59, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- Weak Support I like her mostly because she's original. My only problem is that Wikipedia is not focused on anime and the cutesy appearance may relate bad sterotypes into Wikipedia. H2P 192.122.237.11 17:44, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Oppose - Pure Manga, without humanity. A little Kuso. --虞海 (Yú Hǎi) 09:18, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Best mascot better than Twitty's head coming out of wikipedia's head.