Wikipedia reaches 10 million articles

According to a release from the Wikimedia Foundation, the official article count for all Wikipedias combined reached 10 million on Thursday, March 27. The ten millionth article was a short biography of 16th century English goldsmith and painter Nicholas Hilliard, created in the Hungarian Wikipedia by user Pataki Marta.

Wikipedia now boasts articles in more than 250 languages. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, had this to say about the historic posting: "It's incredible to think that we've grown from one Wikipedia in English to over 250 language Wikipedias. Ten million articles is something we could never have imagined happening so fast when we embarked on Wikipedia in 2001."

To read any of Wikipedia's 10 million articles, visit Wikipedia.