{"id":14076,"date":"2004-07-07T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/wikipedia-reaches-300000-articles\/"},"modified":"2004-07-07T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T10:59:00","slug":"wikipedia-reaches-300000-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/wikipedia-reaches-300000-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Reaches 300,000 Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Slashdot<\/i> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, the free online collaborative encyclopedia, has just <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/07\/07\/0740232&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=126&amp;tid=188&amp;tid=95\" target=\"_blank\">reached the 300,000 article mark<\/a>.  As the article points out, &ldquo;for size comparisons, the English Wikipedia has 90.1 million words across 300,000 articles, compared to Britannica&rsquo;s 55 million words across 85,000 articles. (All the languages combined together reach 790,000 articles.)&rdquo;  I consult Wikipedia fairly regularly, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/2003\/09\/peoples-encyclopedia.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shaft posted about it last year<\/a>; I&rsquo;m glad to see that it continues to flourish.  However, some posts in the <i>Slashdot<\/i> thread point out that the project has been having funding issues for some time now, so if you visit the site regularly you might consider a <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimediafoundation.org\/fundraising\" target=\"_blank\">donation<\/a>.  For fun, visit\/bookmark the link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Randompage\" target=\"_blank\">random Wikipedia entry<\/a>&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> After browsing around Wikipedia for a bit, I noticed two other sites by Wikimedia that are worth visiting: <a href=\"http:\/\/wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Wikiquotes<\/a> is an &ldquo;online compendium of quotations in every language, including sources (where known), translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information,&rdquo; and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Wiktionary<\/a> is a &ldquo;multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies and pronunciations.&rdquo;  Check them out&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108919798105329901?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot reports that Wikipedia, the free online collaborative encyclopedia, has just reached the 300,000 article mark. As the article points out, &ldquo;for size comparisons, the English Wikipedia has 90.1 million words across 300,000 articles, compared to Britannica&rsquo;s 55 million words across 85,000 articles. (All the languages combined together reach 790,000 articles.)&rdquo; I consult Wikipedia fairly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/wikipedia-reaches-300000-articles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wikipedia Reaches 300,000 Articles&#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-14076","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\/14076","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=14076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}