Wikipedia reached the magical figure of 10 million articles on
Wednesday, when an article about a 16th century goldsmith named
Nicholas Hilliard was created on the Hungarian version of the
site. Wikipedia was launched in Jan. 2001 by Jimmy Wales and
Larry Sanger and has since reached a landmark: It now boasts 10
million articles across the site that runs in 250 languages. It
is the largest and fastest-growing reference site on the
Internet. You can tell WIkipedia's clout as soon as you try and
do a Google search on almost anything; Google places high
importance on Wikipedia results so whenever you search Wikipedia
will almost always be in the top 10 search results. Wikipedia
through their Wikimedia Foundation made this announcement about
reaching 10 million articles. They said the 10 millionth article
was created at 5:07 p.m. PDT on March 26. The article is a short
biography of 16th century English goldsmith and painter Nicholas
Hilliard. It was created in Hungarian by a user named Pataki
Marta. Compared to W