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January 15, 2002: "Free Encyclopedia Project, Wikipedia, Creates 20,000 Articles in a Year"
January 21, 2003: "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, reaches its 100,000th article"
February 25, 2004: "Wikipedia publishes 500,000 articles in 50 languages"
May 25, 2004: "Wikipedia wins 8th Annual Webby Award for Best Community"