Hebrew Wikipedia

Hebrew Wikipedia (; pronounced Wikipedia: HaEntsiklopedia HaChofshit, while Wikipedia is pronounced by most speakers Vikipedia; ) is the Hebrew edition of Wikipedia. This edition began in July 2003 and has over 115,000 articles as of March 30, 2011.

Milestones

• July 8, 2003: The Hebrew edition of Wikipedia was launched.
• October 25, 2003: The 1,000th article was written.
• July 22, 2004: The first meeting of Hebrew Wikipedians took place in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• September 20, 2004: The Hebrew version of the Flag of Kazakhstan article became the one millionth article created in all Wikipedias.
• December 24, 2006: The 50,000th article was written.
• January 10, 2010: The 100,000th article was written.

Features

The Hebrew Wikipedia has several topics on which organized article writing projects were held, among them Wikitort - an academic project to write original articles about tort law,ויקיפדיה:פרויקט WIKITORT PhysiWiki - a project to write and improve articles about Physics with the cooperation of Weizmann Institute of Science,ויקיפדיה:מיזמי ויקיפדיה/פיזיוויקי and ongoing academic projects during which mathematics students write as their assignments new articles which cover topics from the basics of calculus and linear algebra up to advanced topics of functional analysis, abstract algebra and algebraic geometry.

Another major area of work is Jewish history and the History of Israel....
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