How Many Million Indonesian Wikipedia Articles Are There Now?

An Ever-Growing Playground

Every single day, hundreds of players jump from one article to another in WikiRace. But have you ever paused for a moment and wondered: just how big is this virtual playground we are racing in?

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that forms the backbone of this game, is not just a regular website. It is the largest collaborative human project in the history of information recording. Let's take a peek at the interesting statistics behind the Indonesian Wikipedia.

A Brief History of Indonesian Wikipedia

The Indonesian Wikipedia (often abbreviated as WBI) first launched in May 2003, following the massive success of the English Wikipedia. Starting from just a few small translated stub articles, this encyclopedia slowly but surely began to attract the attention of Indonesian netizens.

The growth of WBI is inseparable from the selfless contributions of thousands of volunteers (known as Wikipedians) from all over the archipelago. They edit, translate, write new articles, and fight pure vandalism out of a sheer love for knowledge.

How Many Articles Are There Now?

At the time this article is written, the Indonesian Wikipedia has successfully surpassed the 600,000 to 700,000 article mark! Although in sheer quantity it might not yet match the English Wikipedia (which has tens of millions of articles), this achievement is truly extraordinary. It makes WBI one of the largest and most active regional language encyclopedias in Southeast Asia.

This article growth happens constantly every single day. The topics covered are extremely diverse, ranging from:

• Local history and culture (Archipelago Kingdoms, traditional customs, traditional dances).
• Biographies of national figures and heroes.
• Endemic flora and fauna of Indonesia.
• Science, modern technology, and global pop culture (like anime and Hollywood movies).

What Does This Mean for WikiRace Players?

With hundreds of thousands of interconnected articles, the possible routes (paths) created in WikiRace are literally almost limitless. Every single match presents a new and unique landscape of obstacles.

Sometimes the system will drop you into a highly detailed and complex quantum science article, and in the next match you have to race through the biography page of a K-Pop artist, or even try to find your way out of an article about a tiny subdistrict (kelurahan) in a remote corner of Sulawesi island.

This richness and variety of content is what makes WikiRace never feel boring, no matter how often you play it. So, while you're having fun racing on WikiRace Indonesia, let's take a moment to appreciate and perhaps even contribute to the great work of these Wikipedia editors!