Dutch Wikipedia celebrates its tenth anniversary

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The Dutch version of Wikipedia celebrates on Saturday that the ten years. It is Sunday, exactly ten years ago that the first articles appeared online. The Dutch version has become the ninth-largest Wikipedia.

Wikimedia, the organisation behind the Dutch Wikipedia, celebrates the tenth anniversary Saturday afternoon with a party in Den Bosch. The Dutch Wikipedia is one of the larger versions of the online encyclopedia. There are now almost 700,000 articles on to find, according to the stats page.

The Dutch version started ten years ago, five months after the English-language counterpart. Wikipedia fourth itself in January its 10-year anniversary. It is unclear what the first entry on the Dutch Wikipedia, was: by converting databases is the earliest history of Wikipedia more to find out.

Wikipedia has in the Netherlands a lot of inactive members: of the nearly 400,000 registered users 5000 users last month, slightly edited on the English Wikipedia. There are 66 moderators and 217 bots are active on the online encyclopedia.