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Wikipedia reaches Alexa rank 17
According to Alexa, Wikipedia has become the 17th most visited website on the internet, passing Blogger. This actually happened in late March. Just above Wikipedia are Google UK and Microsoft. Wikipedia's daily traffic rank has remained relatively constant since February.

Wikipedia criticism site raises ire of administrators
A Wikipedia criticism site, Wikitruth, has raised the ire of administrators by publicly posting information available only to administrators. The information, which includes revisions of Wikipedia articles deleted under the office actions policy, was posted on the site and later mentioned by an article in The Guardian. A subsequent posting included a channel log from a private administrator-only IRC channel.

Briefly

 * The Hebrew Wikisource has reached 1,000 text-units.
 * The Gothic Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
 * The Telugu Wikipedia has reached 3,000 articles.
 * The Russian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 users.
 * The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 175,000 articles.
 * The Arpitan Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
 * The Italian Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.
 * The Greek Wiktionary has reached 15,000 entries.
 * The Bulgarian Wikipedia has reached 25,000 articles.
 * The Georgian Wikipedia has reached 6,000 articles.
 * The Chinese Wikinews has reached 200 news stories.
 * The Chinese Wiktionary has reached 40,000 entries.
 * The Yiddish Wikipedia has reached 1,500 articles.
 * The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 5,000 registered users.
 * The Korean Wiktionary has reached 6,000 entries.
 * The Turkmen Wikipedia has passed 100 articles.
 * The Twi Wikipedia has passed 10 articles.
 * The Marathi Wikipedia has passed 7,500 total pages and 17,000 edits.
 * The Ilokano Wikipedia has reached 1,000 articles.
 * Japanese Wikipedia won the "All About Super recommended site grand-prix 2006" channel prize. The award ceremony will be held at 04/26(JST) in Tokyo.
 * goo.ne.jp, a search engine in Japan, starts an encyclopedia word search service that searches the Japanese Wikipedia.
 * The Pennsylvania German Wikipedia has reached 500 articles.
 * The Malay Wikipedia has reached 3,000 registered users.
 * The Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia has reached 100 articles.
 * The Albanian Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.