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June 19

• The English Wikipedia now has 600,000 articles! The 600,000th article to be added was (probably) Poona Bayabao, Lanao del Sur, by TheCoffee at 00:20 UTC on June 19th.

June 15

• New statistics charts (http://noc.wikimedia.org/reqstats/) are available, showing how the new Amsterdam cluster is now taking much of the load off the Paris and Florida clusters. Note that because the Amsterdam cluster serves a limited geographical area, its traffic shows a much greater daily variation than that of the Florida cluster. (Chart: Amsterdam cluster data is in green) (http://noc.wikimedia.org/reqstats/reqstats-monthly.png)

June 8

• The Amsterdam cluster is live, and serving users in Europe. (pictures) (http://gallery.nedworks.org/Kennisnet-cluster)
• The new database servers have arrived in the Florida data center

June 7

• The Florida server cluster move has been completed.
• The main Wikimedia server cluster in Florida will be down for relocation to another building beginning at 0700 UTC (3am US EDT, 0900 CEST). The downtime is not expected to last beyond 2100 UTC (5pm EDT, 2300 CEST). This downtime will affect all Wikimedia projects. [1] (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-June/040080.html)

June 4

• Eleven new Wikimedia servers are in the process of being deployed in Amsterdam. When this is live, this will be Wikimedia's third data center, in addition to the Florida and Paris clusters.

Number-of-article milestones

Milestone	Languages (dates milestones reached, in order of reaching them)
1,000,000
500,000	English (17 March 2005)
200,000	German (15 February 2005)
100,000	Japanese (11 February 2005); French (20 April 2005)
50,000	Swedish (17 November 2004); Polish (31 December 2004); Dutch (27 January 2005); Portuguese (21 May 2005); Spanish (30 May 2005)
20,000	Italian (22 July 2004); Danish (5 August 2004); Esperanto (22 January 2005); Chinese (6 February 2005); Norwegian (Bokm�l) (21 March 2005); Finnish (27 April 2005); Hebrew (29 May 2005); Russian (5 June 2005)
10,000	Bulgarian (3 October 2004); Catalan (16 November 2004); Ukrainian (16 November 2004); Romanian (30 December 2004); Slovenian (7 February 2005); Serbian (24 March 2005); Estonian (15 May 2005); Czech (25 May 2005); Indonesian (31 May 2005); Hungarian (4 June 2005); Korean (5 June 2005)
5,000	Croatian (13 January 2005); Slovak (26 March 2005); Norwegian (Nynorsk) (6 April 2005); Galician (29 April 2005); Walloon (9 June 2005)
2,000	Afrikaans (21 February 2004); Basque (March 2004); Latin (21 March 2004); Malay (4 May 2004); Welsh (15 August 2004); Simple English (16 September 2004); Greek (29 October 2004); Tatar (November 2004); Asturian (27 November 2004); Luxembourgish (27 November 2004); Turkish (14 December 2004); Ido (13 January 2005); Lithuanian (21 January 2005); Icelandic (21 February 2005); Arabic (27 March 2005); Bosnian (29 March 2005); Farsi (14 April 2005); Thai (20 May 2005)
1,000	Interlingua (31 July 2003); Frisian (6 June 2004); Kurdish (13 September 2004); Sanskrit (10 October 2004); Scottish Gaelic (14 January 2005); Hindi (24 January 2005); Low Saxon (30 January 2005); Belarusan (21 February 2005); Latvian (27 February 2005); Vietnamese (20 April 2005); Javanese (7 May 2005); Georgian (8 May 2005); Albanian (18 May 2005); Ossetian (20 May 2005); Sicilian (1 June 2005); Marathi (1 June 2005); Macedonian (8 June 2005); Irish (17 June 2005)

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