Wikipedia now has 10 million articles. Wow, that is HUGE for a site that started off in 2001.Of course, this covers articles in all the 250+ languages the online encyclopedia is available in, not just English, which accounts for between 2.3-2.5 million articles.

The 10 millionth article on Wikipedia, is a bio of 16th century English goldsmith and painter, Nicholas Hillard, created in Hungarian.

Here is the press release from the Wikimedia Foundation.

 



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