August 21, 2009 by Matt Thomas
Only eight years after its initial launch, online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia has reached three million English language articles. The piece that tipped them over the edge, a short piece about little known Norwegian film actress named Beate Eriksen, hit the site yesterday and took them to the magic number.
As impressive as the number of articles written in English is, it is not even a quarter of the whole number, the truly international website boasts more than 13 million articles written in over 200 different languages, by 10 million separate registered users, who have made an average of 32 edits.
The biggest non-english language on Wikipedia is German, which accounts for approximately 943,000 of the total number of articles, though it is closely followed by French, Polish and Chinese – a language that is surely set to grow in influence. As indeed will the site, especially considering that it grows by 1,300 articles every day.
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