Wikipedia:Announcements

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Contents 1 June 19, 2008 2 June 7, 2008 3 May 25, 2008 4 April 30, 2008 5 April 7, 2008 6 March 31, 2008 7 February 26, 2008 8 February 16, 2008 9 February 5,2008 10 January 13, 2008 11 December 27, 2007 12 December 15, 2007 13 December 3, 2007 14 November 25, 2007 15 October 14, 2007 16 September 26, 2007 17 August 23, 2007 18 August 4, 2007 19 March 27, 2007 20 July 30, 2006 21 July 28, 2006 22 February 2, 2006 23 September 27, 2005 24 September 16, 2004 25 May 1, 2004 26 April 7, 2004 27 January 15, 2004 28 January 11, 2004 29 December 18, 2003

[change] June 19, 2008

The Simple English Wikipedia now has 30 administrators with the addition of The Rambling Man to our vandal-fighting ranks.

[change] June 7, 2008

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 30,000 articles with the creation of 30,000 Pounds of Bananas by Gwib.

As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 83,713 total pages
• 19,108 registered users (29 (or 0.15%) of them are administrators)
• 910,764 changes have been made since Simple English Wikipedia was started. That comes to 10.88 'changes per page' in the project.

[change] May 25, 2008

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 29,000 articles with the creation of Oboga River by Razorflame.

[change] April 30, 2008

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 28,000 articles with the creation of Kaioo by 84.56.168.78.

[change] April 7, 2008

• Congratulations, Simple English Wikipedia! With the creation of Transformer and Energy (society) (also known as Energy (technology), we have now completed every article on the core article list!

[change] March 31, 2008

• Microformat is article number 27,000 in Simple English Wikipedia; Eptalon created the article.

[change] February 26, 2008

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 26,000 articles with the creation of Stanley, Iowa by Razorflame.

[change] February 16, 2008

Simple English Wikipedia gets its first good articles with:

• Buddhism
• Joss Whedon
• Lenzburg
• Moulin Rouge!
• Pipe organ

[change] February 5,2008

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 25,000 articles with the creation of Paul Freier by Thimo.Brendel!

[change] January 13, 2008

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 24,000 articles with the creation of 439 Ohio by Lights.

[change] December 27, 2007

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 23,000 articles with the creation of Leutwil by Razorflame.

[change] December 15, 2007

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 22,000 articles with the creation of Schinus by Penarc.

[change] December 3, 2007

• Razorflame is the first user in Simple English Wikipedia history to make 1,000 edits in 1 week.

[change] November 25, 2007

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 21,000 articles with the creation of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Spiderpig0001.

[change] October 14, 2007

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 20,000 articles with the creation of Mandurah railway line, Perth by RaNdOm26!

• 55,007 Total pages (which includes "talk" pages, pages about Wikipedia, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as articles).
• 557,984 edits have been made. That comes to 10.14 edits per page.
• There are 12,372 registered users. 21 of them are administrators.

[change] September 26, 2007

• Simple English Wikipedia gains its first checkusers, Creol and M7.

[change] August 23, 2007

• New Main Page design which incorporates very good articles is used.

[change] August 4, 2007

• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.

[change] March 27, 2007

• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles with giant tube worm!

[change] July 30, 2006

• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles! The 10,000th milestone article is Florence Harding.

[change] July 28, 2006

All the articles listed at Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have now exist!

[change] February 2, 2006

The Simple English Wikipedia now has 7,000 articles!

As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 15,569 total pages.
• 2,449 registered users. 11 of these are administrators.
• 99,142 page edits. That comes to 6.37 average edits per page.

[change] September 27, 2005

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 5,000 articles!

As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• Over 11,000 total pages in the Simple English Wikipedia.
• Over 1,600 register users, with 10 administrators (although only three of them are active).

[change] September 16, 2004

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 2000 articles!

As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 4448 total pages (which includes "talk" pages, pages about Wikipedia, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as articles).
• 532 registered users. 8 of these are administrators.
• 17618 page edits. That comes to 3.96 average edits per page.

[change] May 1, 2004

• Simple English Wiktionary created. Should it exist? Discussion at Simple Talk.

[change] April 7, 2004

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 1000 articles!

[change] January 15, 2004

• Wikipedia is three years old today!

[change] January 11, 2004

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 50 registered users.

[change] December 18, 2003

• Simple English Wikipedia is now running on MediaWiki. The beginning of a new Wikipedia