English Wikipedia reaches five million articles
WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone
16 July 2012
Three million articles, Chen, Walsh and Klein win board election, and more
17 August 2009
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10 September 2007
English Wikipedia hits one million articles
6 March 2006
 | There are currently 6,910,647 articles on Wikipedia. |
The English Wikipedia reached five million articles on November 1 with the article Persoonia terminalis, a shrub native to eastern Australia. The article was created by Cas Liber, an Australian Wikipedian who has been editing since 2006. He has created and edited a number of Featured Articles on similar topics and is active in projects like WikiProject Fungi and WikiProject Plants. Liber was one of a number of editors submitting articles around the same time to try to hit the milestone. He wrote "I tried to pick articles I could get to FA status at some point...to show the world that we could FAC the 5000000th." No free image of Persoonia terminalis is currently available, but a number of Wikipedians have independently contacted an Australian photographer who posted copyrighted images of the shrub's two subspecies to Flickr.
The event has been marked by a Wikimedia blog post and a letter from the community, which is reproduced here.
| Previous milestones | Date | Article |
|---|---|---|
| 1 million | 1 March 2006 | Jordanhill railway station |
| 2 million | 9 September 2007 | El Hormiguero |
| 3 million | 17 August 2009 | Beate Eriksen |
| 4 million | 13 July 2012 | Ezbet el-Borg |