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News and notes

News and notes

By Ral315

Similpedia

Similpedia is a new site that uses web pages or paragraphs of text to find related Wikipedia articles. By pasting the URL of any web page, or a paragraph of at least 100 words, the page outputs ten Wikipedia articles that are somehow related to the text.

Briefly

• All Wikipedias combined have reached 8,000,000 articles.
• The English Wikipedia has reached 5,000,000 registered accounts.
• The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 90,000 total pages.
• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.
• The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 111,111 edits.
• The Faroese Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.
• The Spanish Wikinews has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Korean Wikipedia has reached 40,000 articles.
• The Lithuanian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Tarantino Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.
• The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 70,000 articles.
• The Quechua Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
• The French Wikisource has reached 30,000 text units.
• The Nahuatl Wikipedia has reached 2,000 articles.
• The Western Frisian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
• The Azerbaijani Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.

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6 August 2007 (all comments)

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