Wikipedia has finally hit a record more than three million articles after eight years and the work of many people around the world. The 3 million barrier was broken early on Monday morning UK time by an article about a Norwegian actor Beate Eriksen. The articles themselves have emerged through the contributions of more than 10 million registered users who have helped create more than 17 million pages and performed 326million edits on the English Wikipedia’s database. In comparison the French Wikipedia now has more than 800,000 articles while the Japanese, Polish and Italian sites have around 600,000. The site was first founded in 2001 by a team consisting of Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and the popularity of the site heighten in 2004 – 2007.