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02

English Wikipedia reached its first million article this Wednesday ! Wikipedia is the largest Open Source encyclopedia created entirely by volunteers who contribute, update, and revise articles in a collaborative process.

The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 1,000,000th article in the English language edition of Wikipedia. The article is about the Jordanhill railway station in Scotland, and it was started by Wikipedia contributor Ewan Macdonald. Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, online encyclopedia with 3.3 million articles under development in more than 125 languages.

The full text of the English Wikipedia is located at en.wikipedia.org. In addition to articles, the English Wikipedia offers dozens of graphical timelines and subject-specific portals. Its media repository includes four hundred thousand images and hundreds of full-length songs, videos, and animations, many of which are available for free distribution.

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  • Comment by samar
    April 2nd, 2006 at 11:35 am

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    and good luck handsom man

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