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Contents 1 2009 1.1 October 30, 2009 1.2 October 11, 2009 1.3 October 6, 2009 1.4 September 13, 2009 1.5 August 10, 2009 1.6 July 17, 2009 1.7 June 28, 2009 1.8 June 24, 2009 1.9 March 24, 2009 1.10 March 3, 2009 1.11 February 6, 2009 1.12 January 23, 2009 1.13 January 15, 2009 1.14 January 14, 2009 1.15 January 10, 2009 1.16 January 6, 2009 1.17 January 5, 2009 1.18 January 4, 2009 1.19 January 1, 2009 2 2008 2.1 December 30, 2008 2.2 December 27, 2008 2.3 November 28, 2008 2.4 November 15, 2008 2.5 November 3, 2008 2.6 October 23, 2008 2.7 October 19, 2008 2.8 October 7, 2008 2.9 October 1, 2008 2.10 September 17, 2008 2.11 September 6, 2008 2.12 August 16, 2008 2.13 August 2, 2008 2.14 July 20, 2008 2.15 July 15, 2008 2.16 June 20, 2008 2.17 June 19, 2008 2.18 June 7, 2008 2.19 May 25, 2008 2.20 April 30, 2008 2.21 April 7, 2008 2.22 March 31, 2008 2.23 February 26, 2008 2.24 February 16, 2008 2.25 February 5,2008 2.26 January 13, 2008 3 2007 3.1 December 27, 2007 3.2 December 15, 2007 3.3 December 3, 2007 3.4 November 25, 2007 3.5 October 14, 2007 3.6 September 26, 2007 3.7 August 23, 2007 3.8 August 4, 2007 3.9 March 27, 2007 4 2006 4.1 July 30, 2006 4.2 July 28, 2006 4.3 February 2, 2006 5 2005 5.1 September 27, 2005 6 2004 6.1 September 16, 2004 6.2 May 1, 2004 6.3 April 7, 2004 6.4 January 15, 2004 6.5 January 11, 2004 7 2003 7.1 December 18, 2003

[change] 2009

[change] October 30, 2009

• Pmlinediter created the page ‎Totton and Eling. This was the 58,000 encyclopaedic article on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] October 11, 2009

• ‎RubiksMaster110 created the page ‎User talk:Mynameinc with a welcoming template. This was the 150,000th page to be created on the simple English Wikipedia.

[change] October 6, 2009

• Pmlinediter created the article Bispham, Blackpool. This was the 57,000th article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] September 13, 2009

• Nameless User created the article ‎Serie C1 1988–89. This was the 56,000th article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] August 10, 2009

• Nameless User created the article MTN Elite one 1986. This was the 55,000th article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 142,039 total pages
• 75,329 registered users
• 1,821,113 changes have been made since Simple English Wikipedia was started.

[change] July 17, 2009

• Pmlinediter created the article ‎Cross-City Line. This was the 54,000th article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] June 28, 2009

• The Simple English Wikipedia's article count dropped by over 2,000 articles due to the deletion of many one-line stubs in Category:Asteroids. The Request for Deletion can be seen here.

[change] June 24, 2009

• Eptalon created the article ‎Mir-Hossein Mousavi. This was the 58,000th article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] March 24, 2009

• Æåm Fætsøn created the article Ef (Cyrillic). This was the 57,000th article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] March 3, 2009

• Synergy created the article Carl Zimmer. This was the 56,000th article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] February 6, 2009

The Simple English Wikipedia now has 55,000 articles with the creation of 9782 Edo by Razorflame.

As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 127,465 total pages
• 44,930 registered users
• 1,421,733 changes have been made since the Simple English Wikipedia started. This comes to 11.15 'changes per page' in the project.

[change] January 23, 2009

• Razorflame created the article 6817 Pest. This was the 54,000th article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] January 15, 2009

• Either way created the article Bill Bowerman. This was the 53,000th article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] January 14, 2009

• Bluegoblin7 created the article Network SouthEast. This was the 52,000th article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] January 10, 2009

• Razorflame created the article Juverţelul River. This was the 51,000th article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] January 6, 2009

The Simple English Wikipedia now has 50,000 articles with the creation of Death's-head Hawkmoth by Synergy.

As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 120,031 total pages
• 40,173 registered users
• 1,350,652 changes have been made since Simple English Wikipedia was started. That comes to 11.25 'changes per page' in the project.

• Synergy created the article Black-legged Dart Frog. This was the 49,000 article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] January 5, 2009

• Yotbot created the article Quilen. This was the 48,000 article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.
• Yotbot created the article Pont-Saint-Mard. This was the 47,000 article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] January 4, 2009

Synergy created the article Yellow-banded poison dart frog. This was the 46,000 article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia. ‎

[change] January 1, 2009

The Simple English Wikipedia now has 45,000 articles with the creation of George Foreman Grill by Either way. As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 114,780 total pages
• 39,492 registered users
• 1,330,833 changes have been made since Simple English Wikipedia was started. That comes to 11.59 'changes per page' in the project.

[change] 2008

[change] December 30, 2008

• Synergy created the article Bombylius major. This was the 44,000 article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

• Yotbot created the article Saint-Ouen-en-Champagne. This was the 43,000 article to be created on the Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] December 27, 2008

Bluegoblin7 created the article British Rail Class 117. This is the 42,000 article in Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] November 28, 2008

Synergy created the article Discordianism. This is the 41,000 article in Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] November 15, 2008

The first edition of Simple News, the Simple English Wikipedia's Monthly Newsletter, is delivered.

[change] November 3, 2008

The Simple English Wikipedia now has 40,000 articles with the creation of Grambois by Yotcmdr. As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 105,248 total pages
• 31,967 registered users
• 1,168,704 changes have been made since Simple English Wikipedia was started. That comes to 10.98 'changes per page' in the project.

[change] October 23, 2008

A "Did you know..." section is added to the Main Page of Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] October 19, 2008

The Simple English Wikipedia now has over 39,000 articles with the creation of Down (band) by The life of brian.

[change] October 7, 2008

The Simple English Wikipedia now has over 38,000 articles with the creation of Pârâul Minerului by Afil.

[change] October 1, 2008

Gwib created the page User talk:Steelerfan-94. This is the 100,000 page created in Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] September 17, 2008

Synergy created the article Demonology. This is the 37,000 article in Simple English Wikipedia.

[change] September 6, 2008

The Simple English Wikipedia now has over 36,000 articles with the creation of Breaking Dawn by 220.239.196.220

[change] August 16, 2008

The Simple English Wikipedia now has 35,000 articles with the creation of Turbata River (Filipeşti) by Razorflame. As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 94,484 total pages
• 23,176 registered users
• 1,037,709 changes have been made since Simple English Wikipedia was started. That comes to 10.98 'changes per page' in the project.

[change] August 2, 2008

The Simple English Wikipedia now has over 34,000 articles with the creation of Falcău River (Suceava) by Razorflame.

[change] July 20, 2008

Simple English Wikipedia now has 33,000 articles with the creation of Mexicali by 201.143.198.115

[change] July 15, 2008

Simple English Wikipedia now has 32,000 articles with the creation of Amay by JurgenG.

[change] June 20, 2008

The Simple English Wikipedia now has 31,000 articles with the creation of V for Vendetta (film) by Cassandra.

[change] June 19, 2008

The Simple English Wikipedia now has 30 administrators with the addition of The Rambling Man to our vandal-fighting ranks.

[change] June 7, 2008

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 30,000 articles with the creation of 30,000 Pounds of Bananas by Gwib.

As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 83,713 total pages
• 19,108 registered users (29 (or 0.15%) of them are administrators)
• 910,764 changes have been made since Simple English Wikipedia was started. That comes to 10.88 'changes per page' in the project.

[change] May 25, 2008

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 29,000 articles with the creation of Oboga River by Razorflame.

[change] April 30, 2008

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 28,000 articles with the creation of Kaioo by 84.56.168.78.

[change] April 7, 2008

• Congratulations, Simple English Wikipedia! With the creation of Transformer and Energy (society) (also known as Energy (technology), we have now completed every article on the core article list!

[change] March 31, 2008

• Microformat is article number 27,000 in Simple English Wikipedia; Eptalon created the article.

[change] February 26, 2008

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 26,000 articles with the creation of Stanley, Iowa by Razorflame.

[change] February 16, 2008

Simple English Wikipedia gets its first good articles with:

• Buddhism
• Joss Whedon
• Lenzburg
• Moulin Rouge!
• Pipe organ

[change] February 5,2008

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 25,000 articles with the creation of Paul Freier by Thimo.Brendel!

[change] January 13, 2008

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 24,000 articles with the creation of 439 Ohio by Lights.

[change] 2007

[change] December 27, 2007

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 23,000 articles with the creation of Leutwil by Razorflame.

[change] December 15, 2007

• Simple English Wikipedia now has 22,000 articles with the creation of Schinus by Penarc.

[change] December 3, 2007

• Razorflame is the first user in Simple English Wikipedia history to make 1,000 edits in 1 week.

[change] November 25, 2007

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 21,000 articles with the creation of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Spiderpig0001.

[change] October 14, 2007

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 20,000 articles with the creation of Mandurah railway line, Perth by RaNdOm26!

• 55,007 Total pages (which includes "talk" pages, pages about Wikipedia, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as articles).
• 557,984 edits have been made. That comes to 10.14 edits per page.
• There are 12,372 registered users. 21 of them are administrators.

[change] September 26, 2007

• Simple English Wikipedia gains its first checkusers, Creol and M7.

[change] August 23, 2007

• New Main Page design which incorporates very good articles is used.

[change] August 4, 2007

• The Simple English Wiktionary has reached 2,000 entries.

[change] March 27, 2007

• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles with giant tube worm!

[change] 2006

[change] July 30, 2006

• The Simple English Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles! The 10,000th milestone article is Florence Harding.

[change] July 28, 2006

All the articles listed at Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have now exist!

[change] February 2, 2006

The Simple English Wikipedia now has 7,000 articles!

As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 15,569 total pages.
• 2,449 registered users. 11 of these are administrators.
• 99,142 page edits. That comes to 6.37 average edits per page.

[change] 2005

[change] September 27, 2005

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 5,000 articles!

As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• Over 11,000 total pages in the Simple English Wikipedia.
• Over 1,600 register users, with 10 administrators (although only three of them are active).

[change] 2004

[change] September 16, 2004

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 2000 articles!

As of this milestone, Simple English has:

• 4448 total pages (which includes "talk" pages, pages about Wikipedia, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as articles).
• 532 registered users. 8 of these are administrators.
• 17618 page edits. That comes to 3.96 average edits per page.

[change] May 1, 2004

• Simple English Wiktionary created. Should it exist? Discussion at Simple Talk.

[change] April 7, 2004

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 1000 articles!

[change] January 15, 2004

• Wikipedia is three years old today!

[change] January 11, 2004

• The Simple English Wikipedia now has 50 registered users.

[change] 2003

[change] December 18, 2003

• Simple English Wikipedia is now running on MediaWiki. The beginning of a new Wikipedia