Polish Wikipedia

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Image:Wikipedia-logo-pl.png Polish Wikipedia is the Polish edition of Wikipedia. The ninth edition of Wikipedia, it was started in September 2001. The founders of the Polish Wikipedia were Paweł Jochym, a physicist, and Wikipedia editor Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz (Kpjas), a doctor. It has more than 210,000 articles (as of January 2006).

September 4, 2005: overtook the Dutch Wikipedia in the number of articles, however soon afterwards (9 September) it returned to seventh place after being overtaken by the Italian Wikipedia.
September 18, 2005: overtook the Swedish Wikipedia in the number of articles and became the sixth-largest wikipedia.
September 23, 2005: overtook the Italian Wikipedia and became the fifth-largest language edition.
January 15, 2006: overtook the Japanese Wikipedia and became the fourth-largest language edition.

Image:WP Jan 2006c.png In July 2005, a quest for tsca.bot (one of bots in Polish Wikipedia) was written. The bot was programmed to upload statistics from official government pages about French, Polish and Italian municipalities. In a few months, the bot uploaded more than 40,000 articles.

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