Wikipedia:Press releases
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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.
- January 15, 2002: "Free Encyclopedia Project, Wikipedia, Creates 20,000 Articles in a Year"
- January 21, 2003: "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, reaches its 100,000th article"
- February 25, 2004: "Wikipedia publishes 500,000 articles in 50 languages"
- May 25, 2004: "Wikipedia wins 8th Annual Webby Award for Best Community"
- September 2004 : "One million Wikipedia articles"
- March 2005 : "Wikipedia Publishes 500,000th Article in English Edition"
- December 15, 2005: "Nature compares Wikipedia and Britannica"
- January 31, 2006: "Editing by congressional staffers"
- March 2006: "Wikipedia hits milestone 1 million English articles"
Helping with releases
[edit]Distributing press releases
[edit]If you want to distribute a current press release, please add the recipients to whom you have sent it to in the appropriate logbook.
- m:Press release logbook - for global press releases
- Wikipedia:Press releases/Logbook - for local press releases (related to en: only)
How to distribute a press release
Participants
[edit]Users interested in drafting and distributing press releases:
- Michael Snow
- Angela
- Fuzheado
- Zanimum
- +sj +
- The Land
- Xyrael
- Laleenatalk to me contributions to Wikipedia