Hungarian Wikipedia has passed the half millionth article

On 16 February, the Hungarian version of Wikipedia reached its 500,000th article. The milestone article It was an article about diplomat Károly Szarka. 

Wikipedia is a free, editable encyclopaedia that was launched on 15 January 2001 as part of the Nupedia project. Although its creators, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, intended it to be a kind of low-level version of Nupedia, the site, which can be edited by non-experts, has quickly gained enormous popularity, with more than 540 million pages written in 300 languages, and is still one of the most visited sites on the Internet, with more than half a billion visitors a month.

The Hungarian version was launched in 2003 and has recently reached 500,000 entries after nearly 25 million edits. A Wikimedia Hungary Association says that the national Wikipedia is the twenty-sixth largest among Wikipedias, with around ten million devices regularly visiting it and readers viewing hundreds of millions of articles per month. The Hungarian version is being expanded and repairing approximately 5,000 occasional or regular editors per month.

As the association points out, the Hungarian Wikipedia also has a practice of highlighting the best articles. Currently, there are more than a thousand quality articles on the site that have earned the status of priority.

Although Wikipedia makes our lives much easier, it is far from infallible and can sometimes spread disinformation, so it is important to have some reservations about what you read there.