Russian Wikipedia reaches half a million articles – Wikinews, the free news source: “The Russian Language Wikipedia surpassed 500,000 articles at 10:02 UTC on February 25, 2010, after ‘Ys’, an article about a Joanna Newsom album, was created by Nurse fiction, a newcomer to the Wikipedia.
Russian Wikipedia is the tenth largest language edition of Wikipedia, boasting over three hundred and fifty ‘Featured Articles’ and 930 ‘Good Articles’, shown to be the best in the freely-editable encyclopaedia. Russian Wikipedia is also one of the few languages to adopt the Flagged Revisions system.”