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The Dutch Wikipedia (Dutch: Nederlandstalige Wikipedia) is the Dutch-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. As of April 2013, the Dutch Wikipedia is the third-largest Wikipedia edition, with over 1,571,000 articles. It was the fourth Wikipedia edition to exceed 1 million articles, after the English, German and French editions. Even though it is among the ten largest wikipedia on the basis of article numbers, it isn't shown as one of the top ten when navigating to www.wikipedia.org, because that list is based on number of visitors of the website, where it ranks below the Chinese Wikipedia.

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History [edit]

The Dutch Wikipedia was created on 19 June 2001, and reached 100,000 articles on 14 October 2005. It briefly surpassed the Polish Wikipedia as the sixth-largest edition of Wikipedia, but then fell back to the eighth position. On 1 March 2006 it overtook the Swedish and Italian editions in one day to rise back to the sixth position. The edition's 500,000th article was created on November 30, 2008.[1] In a 2006 Multiscope research study, the Dutch Wikipedia was rated the third-best Dutch-language website, after Google and Gmail, with a score of 8.1.[2] In late March 2013, the Dutch Wikipedia surpassed the French Wikipedia to become the third-largest edition of Wikipedia.

The Dutch language Wikipedia has the largest ratio of Wikipedia pages per native speaker of all of the top 10 largest Wikipedia editions. Its rate of daily article creations spiked in March 2006, rapidly growing to an average of 1,000 a day in early May 2006. After this number was reached, growth dropped to an average of only about 250 a day, comparable to the averages around December 2005. Since then, there have been more article-creation surges, one of the largest peaking at 2,000 new articles per day in September 2007, but the growth rate has always returned to the lowest average of around 250. In October 2011, several bots created 80,000 articles (then equivalent to 10% of the entire edition's article count) in only 11 days.[3][4] The Dutch Wikipedia's one-millonth article was created in December 2011, after another surge of bot activity saw 100,000 added articles in only 10 days.

Article growth [edit]

Date Number of articles[5] New articles per day (avg.)
06/19/2001 1 1
08/03/2003 10000 13
02/07/2004 20000 53
06/27/2004 30000 71
08/11/2004 40000 75
01/27/2005 50000 125
03/23/2005 60000 182
05/16/2005 70000 185
07/17/2005 80000 161
09/07/2005 90000 192
10/14/2005 100000 270
11/30/2005 110000 213
01/05/2006 120000 278
02/06/2006 130000 313
03/01/2006 140000 435
03/18/2006 150000 588
04/02/2006 160000 667
04/13/2006 170000 909
04/28/2006 180000 667
05/08/2006 190000 1000
05/24/2006 200000 625
07/04/2006 210000 244
08/16/2006 220000 233
09/28/2006 230000 233
11/16/2006 240000 204
12/26/2006 250000 250
01/01/2007 260000 1667
02/05/2007 270000 286
03/04/2007 280000 370
04/18/2007 290000 222
05-28-2007 300000 250
06/20/2007 310000 434
07/22/2007 320000 313
08/27/2007 330000 278
09/10/2007 340000 714
09/15/2007 350000 2000
09/25/2007 360000 1000
10/11/2007 370000 625
11/17/2007 380000 270
12/25/2007 390000 263
01/17/2008 400000 435
02/18/2008 410000 313
03/21/2008 420000 313
04/17/2008 430000 370
05/24/2008 440000 270
06/29/2008 450000 278
07/13/2008 460000 714
08/12/2008 470000 333
09/22/2008 480000 244
11/01/2008 490000 250
11/30/2008 500000 344
01/13/2009 510000 227
02/16/2009 520000 294
04/13/2009 530000 175
05/31/2009 540000 208
07/30/2009 550000 167
09/23/2009 560000 179
11/10/2009 570000 208
01/06/2010 580000 175
03/01/2010 590000 185
04/30/2010 600000 167
07/12/2010 610000 137
08/07/2010 620000 385
08/25/2010 630000 556
09/16/2010 640000 476
11/06/2010 650000 196
12/16/2010 660000 244
02/05/2011 670000 192
04/04/2011 680000 172
06/03/2011 690000 167
06/19/2011 700000 625
06/25/2011 710000 1667
07/02/2011 720000 1429
07/03/2011 730000 10000
07/23/2011 740000 500
09/18/2011 750000 175
10/13/2011 760000 400
10/21/2011 770000 1250
10/21/2011 780000 10000
10/22/2011 790000 10000
10/22/2011 800000 10000
10/22/2011 810000 10000
10/29/2011 820000 1429
10/30/2011 830000 10000
10/30/2011 840000 10000
10/31/2011 850000 10000
11/18/2011 860000 556
11/26/2011 870000 1250
12/04/2011 880000 1250
12/06/2011 890000 5000
12/07/2011 900000 10000
12/08/2011 910000 10000
12/09/2011 920000 10000
12/09/2011 930000 10000
12/10/2011 940000 10000
12/11/2011 950000 10000
12/15/2011 960000 2500
12/15/2011 970000 10000
12/15/2011 980000 10000
12/16/2011 990000 10000
12/17/2011 1000000 10000
12/31/2011 1010000 714
02/10/2012 1020000 244
03/09/2012 1030000 357
04/30/2012 1040000 192
06/23/2012 1050000 185
07/15/2012 1060000 455
08/16/2012 1070000 313
09/08/2012 1080000 434
09/11/2012 1090000 3333
09/14/2012 1100000 3333
09/23/2012 1110000 1111
09/24/2012 1120000 10000
11/17/2012 1130000 185
01/14/2013 1140000 172
02/19/2013 1150000 278
02/27/2013 1160000 1250
03/03/2013 1170000 2500
03/09/2013 1180000 1667
03/09/2013 1190000 10000
03/09/2013 1200000 10000
03/09/2013 1210000 10000
03/10/2013 1220000 10000
03/14/2013 1230000 2500
03/15/2013 1240000 10000
03/18/2013 1250000 3333
03/18/2013 1260000 10000
03/20/2013 1270000 5000
03/21/2013 1280000 10000
03/22/2013 1290000 10000
03/22/2013 1300000 10000
03/25/2013 1310000 3333
03/28/2013 1320000 3333
03/28/2013 1330000 10000
03/29/2013 1340000 10000
03/29/2013 1350000 10000
03/29/2013 1360000 10000
03/30/2013 1370000 10000
03/30/2013 1380000 10000
04/01/2013 1390000 5000
04/01/2013 1400000 10000
04/04/2013 1410000 3333
04/05/2013 1420000 10000
04/06/2013 1430000 10000
04/06/2013 1440000 10000
04/07/2013 1450000 10000
04/09/2013 1460000 5000
04/11/2013 1470000 5000
04/12/2013 1480000 10000
04/12/2013 1490000 10000
04/12/2013 1500000 10000
04/13/2013 1510000 10000
04/13/2013 1520000 10000
04/17/2013 1530000 2500
04/18/2013 1540000 10000
04/22/2013 1550000 2500
05/11/2013 1560000 526
05/17/2013 1570000 1667

Bibliography [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ 500.000e artikel (in Dutch). Retrieved December 7, 2008.
  2. ^ "Nederlandse Wikipedia groeit als kool" (in Dutch). Multiscope.nl. Retrieved 27 December 2006.
  3. ^ List of Wikipedias on 20 October 2011.
  4. ^ List of Wikipedias on 31 October 2011.
  5. ^ "Statistics of the Dutch Wikipedia" (in Dutch). Nl.wikipedia.org. Retrieved October 21, 2011.

External links [edit]

Dutch Wikipedia edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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