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A Wikimedia Foundation fundraising drive began Friday. The fundraiser, which will last for three weeks, ends on 6 January. At press time, nearly US$115,000 had been raised. Although no specific goal has been set, Daniel Mayer, Wikimedia CFO, indicated he hoped it could raise at least US$500,000.

Alexa data shows that Wikipedia's traffic rank has risen to 24th. At press time, Wikipedia was ranked higher than CNN, the BBC, Google UK, and Go.com. Wikipedia's three-month rank is still 34th.

• The Arabic Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 15,000 articles.
• The Russian Wikipedia has reached 50,000 articles.
• The Malay Wikipedia has reached 10,000 articles.
• The Chinese Wikipedia has reached 150,000 pages in all, including over 50,000 articles.
• The Polish Wikipedia has reached 150,000 articles.
• The Greek Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
• The Luxembourgish Wikipedia has reached 7,000 articles.
• The Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 90,000 articles.
• The number of registered users at the Vietnamese Wikipedia has surpassed the article count.

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