{"id":13583,"date":"2005-03-21T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/21\/wikipedia-publishes-500000th-english-article\/"},"modified":"2005-03-21T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T15:51:00","slug":"wikipedia-publishes-500000th-english-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/21\/wikipedia-publishes-500000th-english-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Publishes 500,000th English Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Press_releases\/March_2005\" target=\"_blank\">Here&rsquo;s the press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 500,000th article in the English-language Wikipedia, its project to create a free, multilingual, online encyclopedia. The article was about &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Involuntary_settlements_in_the_Soviet_Union\" target=\"_blank\">Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union<\/a>.&rdquo; The total of 500,000 articles far exceeds any other encyclopedia project. At the average of 2,500 characters per article, this is 1.25 gigabytes of raw text, which if printed double-sided would form a stack about 66 feet or over 6 stories tall. Other recent additions to its English-language edition include hundreds of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Sound\/list\" target=\"_blank\">full-length songs<\/a>, almost a gigabyte of <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">new images<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Wikiportal\/Art\" target=\"_blank\">subject-specific portals<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations!  If you haven&rsquo;t already visited <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, I highly recommend it&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111142028039059695?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s the press release: The Wikimedia Foundation announced today the creation of the 500,000th article in the English-language Wikipedia, its project to create a free, multilingual, online encyclopedia. The article was about &ldquo;Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union.&rdquo; The total of 500,000 articles far exceeds any other encyclopedia project. At the average of 2,500 characters &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/21\/wikipedia-publishes-500000th-english-article\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wikipedia Publishes 500,000th English Article&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}