Yes! Well done! Congrats on the wonderful success in such a hard year. Jackie K.
> On Dec 26, 2020, at 9:01 AM, Shani Evenstein <sh...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > 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> > _______________________________________________ > 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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