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The English Wikipedia has the text of several dozen Britannicas and as of November 2013[update] adds several hundred articles (net, after deletions) per day. The current article count is 6,939,426 articles with 182 average revisions per article.
During Wikimania 2006, Jimbo Wales challenged the English Wikipedia community to work more on quality than sheer quantity. In July 2006, Danny wrote an essay, What next, on the subject, and in September 2006, on his contest page, said:
"Rather than getting another million articles, I believe that we need 100,000 more Feature-quality articles."
We now have 6,663. This essay discusses the challenge of accomplishing that goal.