Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-05-21/News and notes

LGBT WikiProject featured in US magazine
The LGBT studies WikiProject was featured in US magazine The Advocate, a magazine with 165,000 subscribers. The article quotes project coordinator Dev920, and misattributes a quote made by Gmaxwell to Raul654 ("All new media are first explored by the minorities and the marginalized.")

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 * The Catalan government supports a marathon in the Catalan Wikipedia for reaching 100,000 articles in the Catalan language.
 * The Italian Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles.
 * The Volapük Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
 * The German Wikipedia has reached 400,000 registered users.
 * The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 600,000 edits.
 * The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 40,000 registered users.
 * The Min Nan Wiktionary has reached 20,000 edits.
 * The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 15,000 total pages.
 * The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 9,000 articles.
 * The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
 * The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 400,000 registered users.
 * The Lombard Wikipedia has passed 50,000 articles.
 * The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 600,000 edits.
 * The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 edits.
 * The Italian Wikiquote has reached 100,000 edits.
 * The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 users.
 * The Divehi Wiktionary has reached 500 pages.
 * The Min Nan Wiktionary has reached 7,000 pages.