On what date did the English Wikipedia reach six million articles?

The English Wikipedia reached six million articles on 23 January 2020.

The milestone article was a biography of Maria Elise Turner Lauder, a Canadian artist and poet. Its creation pushed the English-language edition past the six-million-article mark, making it the first Wikipedia language edition to reach that total. The milestone was reached almost 19 years after Wikipedia launched in January 2001.

Article-count milestones measure pages classified as articles, not every page on Wikipedia. The encyclopedia also contains talk pages, user pages, project pages, templates, files, redirects, and other administrative material. Counts can also change as articles are created, merged, redirected, or deleted.

The date is sometimes confused with milestones from other language editions or with Wikipedia’s global article count. Wikipedia passed 50 million articles across all language editions in March 2019. Later, Cebuano Wikipedia also exceeded six million articles in October 2021. These comparisons show why a quiz question should specify the English Wikipedia rather than Wikipedia as a whole.