Wikipedia 达到 100 万个条目
Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing. And we need your help.
“想象一下一个每个人都能够自由获取人类知识的世界。这就是我们正在做的。我们需要你的帮助。”
Wikipedia Foundation 在 9 月 20 日宣布了维基百科的第一百万个条目的诞生。下面是 Slashdot的新闻稿：
Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark
Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 21, @04:51AM
from the and-hits-it-hard dept.
Sir Homer writes “The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the one millionth article in Wikipedia. Started in January 2001, Wikipedia is currently both the world’s largest encyclopedia and fastest-growing, with articles under active development in over 100 languages. Nearly 2,500 new articles are added to Wikipedia each day, along with ten times that number of updates to existing articles. Wikipedia now ranks as one of the ten most popular reference sites on the Internet, according to Alexa.com. It is increasingly used as a resource by students, journalists, and anyone who needs a starting point for research. Wikipedia’s rate of growth has continued to increase in recent months, and at its current pace Wikipedia will double in size again by next spring.” stevejobsjr writes “Wikipedia needs our help. The Wikipedia project has no ads, and is run completely by volunteers. Still, it takes money to run such an amazing resource, and so they are running a fundraiser. The goal is to raise $50,000.”
Wikipedia 已经拥有超过 100 种语言的版本，每天有超过 2500 个新条目的增加，并有十倍于这个数量的条目更新。他正日益成为网络上一个真正的知识王国。什么时候，维基百科中文版也能够在中文的世界中达到这样的程度呢？
这里是 Wikipedia Foundation 官方新闻的英文版和中文版。
