Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-05-01/News and notes

Wikipedia reaches 4 million articles
Wikipedia reached 4 million articles in its various languages on Sunday. Of the 4 million articles, over 25% (~1.1 million) were in English.

Summer of Code 2006
Wikipedia is participating in Google's Summer of Code, which allows students to perform work for profit for many open source projects. Applications opened on Monday; participants are required to be 18 or older, and be a full or part-time student at an accredited institution. Google employees and their families, as well as citizens of Iran, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar/Burma are ineligible.

Comparison of English and German Wikipedias
During a mailing list conversation comparing the English and German Wikipedias, Elian, a participant in both communities, wrote a detailed comparison of the two, comparing each on issues such as Adminship (requests for adminship are much more frequented on the German Wikipedia), arbitration (the German Wikipedia has no Arbitration Committee, and instead decides bans by community vote), userboxes (relegated to the User namespace on the German Wikipedia), and social structure.

Wikipedian survey
In preparation for a speech to be delivered at Wikimania 2006, Linuxbeak is soliciting survey responses from Wikipedians about what they think about Wikipedia.

Briefly

 * The English Wikipedia has reached 1.1 million articles.
 * The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 15,000 registered users.
 * The Galician Wikipedia has reached 1,000 registered users.
 * Wikipedia has passed 4,000,000 articles.
 * The Czech Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
 * Wikipedia has reached 40,000,000 web page hits for the first time on this day, according to Alexa
 * The Walloon Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
 * The Marathi Wikipedia has reached 8,000 pages total.
 * The Swedish Wikipedia has reached 15,000 users.
 * The Hungarian Wikipedia has reached 30,000 articles.
 * The French Wikipedia has reached 100,000 registered users.
 * The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 50 featured articles.
 * The Romanian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 users.
 * The Macedonian Wiktionary has reached 100 entries.
 * The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
 * The French Wikipedia has reached 275,000 articles.
 * The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 65,000 articles and 200,000 total pages.
 * The Dutch Wikipedia has reached 400,000 total pages. Its article count is just above 175,000.
 * The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 10,000 users.