Wikipedia:Press releases

This is a collection of Wikipedia press releases. (Wikimedia project press releases can be found at Wikimedia press release.) If you are interested in working on press releases, please add your name below.

1. January 15, 2002: "Free Encyclopedia Project, Wikipedia, Creates 20,000 Articles in a Year"
2. January 21, 2003: "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, reaches its 100,000th article"
3. February 25, 2004: "Wikipedia publishes 500,000 articles in 50 languages"
4. May 25, 2004: "Wikipedia wins 8th Annual Webby Award for Best Community"
5. September 2004 : "One million Wikipedia articles"
6. March 2005 : "Wikipedia Publishes 500,000^th Article in English Edition"
7. December 15, 2005: "Nature compares Wikipedia and Britannica"
8. January 31, 2006: "Editing by congressional staffers"
9. March 2006: "Wikipedia hits milestone 1 million English articles"

Helping with releases

Distributing press releases

If you want to distribute a current press release, please add the recipients to whom you have sent it to in the appropriate logbook.

• m:Press release logbook - for global press releases
• Wikipedia:Press releases/Logbook - for local press releases (related to en: only)

How to distribute a press release

Participants

Users interested in drafting and distributing press releases:

• Michael Snow
• Angela
• Fuzheado
• Zanimum
• +sj
• The Land
• Xyrael
• Laleena^{talk to me contributions to Wikipedia}

See also

• Wikipedia:Press coverage
• Wikipedia:Press Kit
• meta:Milestones
• History of Wikipedia