Wonderful news! Congrats! On Sat, 26 Dec 2020, 15:50 Shabab Mustafa, <shabab.must...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends, > > The year 2020 is full of woes and wonders. Just before the ending of 2020, > Bengali Wikipedia[1][2] has passed a significant milestone of passing 100K > articles. > > Bengali, an Indo-Aryan language and lingua-franca of the Bengal region of > South Asia, is the fifth most-spoken native language and the seventh > most-spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world.[3] The > Bengali Wikipedia Project launched on 27 January 2004 with very few > editors. On 25 December 2020, after 16 years of the initial launch, it now > has passed the milestone of 100k+ articles.[4] > > As most of the contributors of Bengali Wikipedia are young and this year's > long lockdowns and campus shutdowns of educational institutes, Wikipedians > had managed to utilized their extra free times by contributing to the > Bengali Wikipedia and it has enjoyed growth at an almost double rate than > the previous year with an organized approach of topic-based consecutive > edit-a-thons. > > Here is a quick overview of the milestones achieved - > > 27 January 2004: Launch of Bengali Wikipedia > September 2006: 10K articles > 28 June 2009: 20K articles > 13 May 2014: 30K articles > 04 January 2016: 40K articles > 30 April 2017: 50K articles > 08 August 2018: 60K articles > 16 July 2019: 70K articles > 23 January 2020: 80K articles > 22 June 2020: 90K articles > 25 December 2020: 100K articles > > I welcome you to congratulate the Bengali Wikipedia community for their > achievement and wishing them all the best for future progress and > prosperity. > > Ref: > ==== > [1] https://bn.wikipedia.org > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Wikipedia > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#100_000+_articles > > Regards, > --- > Shabab Mustafa > T. @tarunno > S. shabab.mustafa > W. https://shabab.me > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >
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