Wikipedia:Announcements May 2002

Current announcements - July 2002 - No June announcements - April 2002

Table of contents 1 Announcements for May 2002 1.1 May 17, 2002 1.2 May 9, 2002 1.3 May 4, 2002

Announcements for May 2002

May 17, 2002

Not the quickest reaction time, but at some point in the last week or so, using the most conservative count available (from the Statistics page), Wikipedia passed 33,333 articles. This puts us over one third of the way to the original goal of 100,000 articles!

May 9, 2002

After much work by a number of contributors on the Wikitech-L list, Wikipedia responsiveness is back to reasonable levels. There are continued concerted efforts to hammer out bugs and improve speed.

May 4, 2002

Wikipedia now has a Google PageRank of 7/10.