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Dutch Wikipedia
URL	http://nl.wikipedia.org/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
Registration	Optional
Available language(s)	Dutch
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation

The Dutch Wikipedia (Dutch: Nederlandse Wikipedia) is the Dutch language edition of Wikipedia. Started on 19 June 2001, this edition reached 100,000 articles on 14 October 2005. It shortly surpassed the Polish Wikipedia as the sixth largest edition of Wikipedia, but then it fell back to the eighth position. On 24 January 2006, the 125,000th article was added. On 1 March 2006 it overtook the Swedish and Italian editions in one day to rise back to the sixth position. On 19 March 2006 the 150,000th article was added and the 200,000th article was added on 24 May 2006. The project reached 300,000 articles on 28 May 2007. As of 10 January 2008, the Dutch Wikipedia contained over 400,000 articles. The milestone of 500,000 article was reached on November 30 of the same year.^[1] From the start of the Dutch Wikipedia the number of newly added articles a day gradually increased. In March 2006 it made a rapid growth to peak at an average of 1000 in early May 2006. After this number was reached the growth dropped to an average of only about 250, comparable to the averages around December 2005.

The Dutch language Wikipedia has the largest ratio of Wikipedia pages per native speaker from all of the top 10 largest Wikipedia editions.

In a 2006 Multiscope research study, the Dutch Wikipedia was rated the third best Dutch language site, after Google and Gmail, with a score of 8.1.^[2]

[edit] Statistics

Date DD-MM-YYY	Number of articles	art. per day
19-06-2001	1	1
03-08-2003	10,000	13
07-02-2004	20,000	53
27-06-2004	30,000	71
08-11-2004	40,000	75
27-01-2005	50,000	125
23-03-2005	60,000	182
16-05-2005	70,000	185
17-07-2005	80,000	161
07-09-2005	90,000	192
14-10-2005	100,000	270
30-11-2005	110,000	213
05-01-2006	120,000	278
06-02-2006	130,000	313
01-03-2006	140,000	435
18-03-2006	150,000	588
02-04-2006	160,000	667
13-04-2006	170,000	909
28-04-2006	180,000	667
08-05-2006	190,000	1000
24-05-2006	200,000	625
04-07-2006	210,000	244
16-08-2006	220,000	233
28-09-2006	230,000	233
16-11-2006	240,000	204
26-12-2006	250,000	250
01-01-2007	260,000	1667
05-02-2007	270,000	286
04-03-2007	280,000	370
18-04-2007	290,000	222
28-05-2007	300,000	250
20-06-2007	310,000	434
22-07-2007	320,000	313
27-08-2007	330,000	278
10-09-2007	340,000	714
15-09-2007	350,000	2000
25-09-2007	360,000	1000
11-10-2007	370,000	625
17-11-2007	380,000	270
25-12-2007	390,000	263
17-01-2008	400,000	435
18-02-2008	410,000	323
30-11-2008	500,000	315
30-07-2009	550,000	205

[edit] Bibliography

Smits, Ap de Personal Computer Magazine nr. 4 April 2008 Dat zoeken we op! Wikipedia vs. de Britannica en Encarta (Dutch language)

[edit] References

^ 500.000e artikel (website in Dutch language), retrieved December 7, 2008
^ Nederlandse Wikipedia groeit als kool (Website in Dutch Language), Recovered 27 December 2006

[edit] External links

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[0] 500.000e artikel (website in Dutch language), retrieved December 7, 2008

[1] Nederlandse Wikipedia groeit als kool (Website in Dutch Language), Recovered 27 December 2006

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