Wikipedia fully unblocked in China and experiencing rapid growth
Good news for Wikipedia and China - Andrew Lih reports that the partial unblock of Wikipedia in China is now a full unblock and Wikipedia is accessible from everywhere in China. He also has graphs showing a surge of new users. Over 1000 new users are signing up for the Chinese Wikipedia per day since the block was lifted! This makes it the second fastest growing Wikipedia in terms of user registrations. Article growth is also up, and they celebrated reaching 100,000 articles this week. It’s almost four years since the English Wikipedia hit the same milestone.
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WikiAngela » Wikimedia Commons prepares to celebrate one million uploads said,
November 14, 2006 at 2:47
[...] As the Chinese Wikipedia reaches 100,000 articles, the Wikimedia Commons is getting ready to celebrate a milestone of its own — 1 million files. Brianna came up with a great idea for the community to mark the occasion by creating a mosaic that represents the Wikimedia Foundation logo. The aim is to visually represent the breadth of images that are available on the project. If you want to help improve the mosaic, you can get involved in selecting better images. [...]
WikiAngela » 50th edition of Wikizine said,
November 14, 2006 at 19:08
[...] So many milestones; China, the Commons, and now Wikizine. Wikizine has published its 50th newsletter. If you want a short summary of the most important goings on across Wikimedia, I strongly recommend that you subscribe to Wikizine by email or RSS. Walter Vermeir does a great job of gathering wiki news from a range of sources including mailing lists, blogs, IRC, and the wikis themselves. His weekly publication has an excellent signal-to-noise ratio. [...]
WikiAngela » Wikipedia reblocked in China said,
November 20, 2006 at 19:47
[...] Wikipedia fully unblocked in China and experiencing rapid growth [...]