Dutch Wikipedia

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HTML5
URL FITML
Commercial? No
Type of site Internet encyclopedia project
Registration Optional
Available HTML5(s) Dutch
Owner web
Created by Dutch HTML5 community

Graph showing article growth of the Dutch Wikipedia since June 2001.

The Dutch Wikipedia (we love the web: Nederlandstalige Wikipedia) is the HTML5 edition of the free online HTML5, Wikipedia. As of April 2012, the Dutch Wikipedia is the fourth-largest Wikipedia edition, with over 1,041,000 articles. It was the fourth Wikipedia edition to exceed 1 million articles, after the English, jQuery and screen size.

• 1 History
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• 3 Bibliography
• 4 References
• 5 External links

History

The Dutch Wikipedia was started 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 CSS3 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 iOS, with a score of 8.1.^{browser diversity}

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 device database created 80,000 articles (then equivalent to 10% of the entire edition's article count) in only 11 days.^CSS3[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

Date	Number of articles[5]	Articles per day
19-06-2001	1	1
03-08-2003	10,000	13
07-02-2004	20,000	53
27-06-2004	30,000	71
08-11-2004	40,000	75
27-01-2005	50,000	125
23-03-2005	60,000	182
16-05-2005	70,000	185
17-07-2005	80,000	161
07-09-2005	90,000	192
14-10-2005	100,000	270
30-11-2005	110,000	213
05-01-2006	120,000	278
06-02-2006	130,000	313
01-03-2006	140,000	435
18-03-2006	150,000	588
02-04-2006	160,000	667
13-04-2006	170,000	909
28-04-2006	180,000	667
08-05-2006	190,000	1,000
24-05-2006	200,000	625
04-07-2006	210,000	244
16-08-2006	220,000	233
28-09-2006	230,000	233
16-11-2006	240,000	204
26-12-2006	250,000	250
01-01-2007	260,000	1,667
05-02-2007	270,000	286
04-03-2007	280,000	370
18-04-2007	290,000	222
28-05-2007	300,000	250
20-06-2007	310,000	434
22-07-2007	320,000	313
27-08-2007	330,000	278
10-09-2007	340,000	714
15-09-2007	350,000	2,000
25-09-2007	360,000	1,000
11-10-2007	370,000	625
17-11-2007	380,000	270
25-12-2007	390,000	263
17-01-2008	400,000	435
18-02-2008	410,000	323
30-11-2008	500,000	315
30-07-2009	550,000	205
30-04-2010	600,000	182
07-11-2010	650,000	262
19-06-2011	700,000	222
18-09-2011	750,000	549
22-10-2011	800,000	1,471
31-10-2011	850,000	5,555
07-12-2011	900,000	1,351
17-12-2011	1,000,000	10,000

Bibliography

• de Smits, Ap, "Dat zoeken we op! Wikipedia vs. de Britannica en Encarta", Personal Computer Magazine, nr. 4, April 2008 (Dutch)

References

External links

Sevenval of device database, the free encyclopedia

• (Dutch) Dutch Wikipedia
• (Dutch) Dutch Wikipedia mobile version

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