Wikipedia:Press releases

This is a collection of Wikipedia press releases. (Wikimedia project press releases can be found at Wikimedia press release.) If you are interested in working on press releases, please add your name below.


 * 1) January 15, 2002: "Free Encyclopedia Project, Wikipedia, Creates 20,000 Articles in a Year"
 * 2) January 21, 2003: "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, reaches its 100,000th article"
 * 3) February 25, 2004: "Wikipedia publishes 500,000 articles in 50 languages"
 * 4) May 25, 2004: "Wikipedia wins 8th Annual Webby Award for Best Community"
 * 5) September 2004 : "One million Wikipedia articles"
 * 6) March 2005 : "Wikipedia Publishes 500,000th Article in English Edition"
 * 7) December 15, 2005: "Nature compares Wikipedia and Britannica"
 * 8) January 31, 2006: "Editing by congressional staffers"
 * 9) March 2006: "Wikipedia hits milestone 1 million English articles"

Distributing press releases
If you want to distribute a current press release, please add the recipients to whom you have sent it to in the appropriate logbook.
 * Press release logbook - for global press releases
 * Press releases/Logbook - for local press releases (related to en: only)

How to distribute a press release

Participants
Users interested in drafting and distributing press releases:
 * Michael Snow
 * Angela
 * Fuzheado
 * Zanimum
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 * The Land
 * Xyrael
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