Dutch Wikipedia

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The Dutch 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. 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.

On August 23, 2006 Multiscope published a report stating that one out of three Dutch people uses Wikipedia. The Dutch language Wikipedia is therefore the sixth most popular website in the Netherlands. ^[1]

Date DD-MM-YYYY	Number of articles (art/day)	Date DD-MM-YYYY	Number of articles (art/day)
19-06-2001	1	17-07-2005	80,000 (156)
26-11-2002	2,500 (5)	11-08-2005	85,000 (200)
22-04-2003	5,000 (17)	07-09-2005	90,000 (185)
03-08-2003	10,000 (49)	21-09-2005	95,000 (357)
12-11-2003	15,000 (50)	14-10-2005	100,000 (217)
07-02-2004	20,000 (57)	30-11-2005	110,000 (213)
08-04-2004	25,000 (82)	05-01-2006	120,000 (278)
27-06-2004	30,000 (63)	06-02-2006	130,000 (313)
04-09-2004	35,000 (72)	01-03-2006	140,000 (435)
08-11-2004	40,000 (77)	18-03-2006	150,000 (588)
23-12-2004	45,000 (111)	02-04-2006	160,000 (667)
27-01-2005	50,000 (143)	13-04-2006	170,000 (909)
03-03-2005	55,000 (143)	28-04-2006	180,000 (667)
23-03-2005	60,000 (250)	08-05-2006	190,000 (1000)
13-04-2005	65,000 (238)	24-05-2006	200,000 (625)
16-05-2005	70,000 (152)	04-07-2006	210,000 (244)
15-06-2005	75,000 (167)	16-08-2006	220,000 (233)