English Wikipedia Gets Two Millionth Article

reybrujo writes to inform us of a milestone for the English-language Wikipedia: the posting of its two millionth article. At the time of this posting there is uncertainty over which article achieved the milestone. "Initial reports stated that the two millionth article written was El Hormiguero, which covers a Spanish TV comedy show. Later review of this information found that this article was most likely not two million, and instead a revised list of articles created around two million has been generated, and is believed to be correct to within 3 articles. The Wikimedia foundation, which operates the site, is expected to make an announcement with a final decision, which may require review of the official servers' logs."

That was quick

[micpp]

And people have already tried to delete the article for not being notable.

Confusion?

[niceone]

Can't they just check Wikipedia?

The millionth

[4D6963]

Which was the millionth article then? Not that it really matters, just being curious, cause I'm like, bored..

What I love about Wikipedia....

[Demerara]

...is their commitment to stating the obvious. At length...

The 2,000,000 article is actually the last article to be part of the first 2,000,000 articles and the 2,000,001 is the first of the third million.

I'm glad they cleared that up - I wondered whether the 2,000,000 article might be actually the one millionth or perhaps the 4 millionth....

Re:Is it so important?

[daeg]

Just so you know, you're the 8th person bitching about this, and the 5th since the turn of the hour's 22nd minute, with a very high probability that future posters will bitch about it too, and will bitch about it at the 2.5 million mark, too, and the 5 million.

Spanglish Wiki?

[Mr. Underbridge]

"...a milestone for the English-language Wikipedia:" ..."Initial reports stated that the two millionth article written was El Hormiguero, which covers a Spanish TV comedy show."

Wow, that's ironical.

Re:Is it so important?

[Rik Sweeney]

how many times did Al pacino say "fuck" on Scarface

It's 207 in case anyone's interested.

Re:How many articles do other encyclopedias have?

[LiquidCoooled]

Actually, wikipedia can answer that (though I don't know how accurate it is):

The size of the Britannica has remained roughly constant over the past 70 years, with about 40 million words on half a million topics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Bri tannica [wikipedia.org]

Re:What I love about Wikipedia....

[fractoid]

You're saying there isn't a zeroth article?

Oh and wow, the Firefox spell checker thinks 'zeroth' is a word. Score one for Asimov (or did he not coin it? Whoever it was then, colour me curious!)

Re:What I love about Wikipedia....

[everphilski]

or did he not coin it? Whoever it was then, colour me curious!

maybe a c++ programmer? :)