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This page is for documenting the major milestones of the Simple English Wiktionary.

Entry count milestones

Entry #	Entry	Date
700	now	19:49, August 1, 2006 (UTC)
800	benefit	10:22, August 14, 2006 (UTC)
900	legislation	17:20, September 12, 2006 (UTC)
1000	brush	21:33, November 6, 2006 (UTC)
1200	globe	11:27, December 2, 2006 (UTC)
1300	instant	11:27, December 11, 2006 (UTC)
1400	grateful	16:41, January 2, 2007 (UTC)
1500	elderly	11:07, February 23, 2007 (UTC)
1700	commitment	08:33, June 25, 2007 (UTC)
1800	selection	17:27, July 21, 2007 (UTC)
1900	humor	13:18, July 29, 2007 (UTC)
2000	dependent	08:35, August 2, 2007 (UTC)
2100	quotation	20:49, August 23, 2007 (UTC)
2200	paragraph	06:02, September 19, 2007 (UTC)
2300	grow	14:24, November 4, 2007 (UTC)
2400	eater	18:40, November 13, 2007 (UTC)
2700	dermatologist	17:42, December 9, 2007 (UTC)
3000	westwards	19:37, December 29, 2007 (UTC)
3500	papaya	21:14, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
4000	bathroom	11:48, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
5000	writer	21:58, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
5300	reinforces	01:41, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
6000	investments	10:53, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
7800	checks	11:25, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
8000	southern	11:53, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
8400	bored	12:35, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
9000	trailed	22:17, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
10000	ringed	14:46, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
11000	clouding	20:57, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
12000	benched	13:40, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
15000	‎hinges	21:06, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
16000	sniffs	05:53, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
17000	platform	15:06, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
18000	ration	07:08, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
19000	roves	10:51, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
23000	handbags	14:26, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

Word list milestones

Word list	Date completed
Basic English alphabetical wordlist	2 August 2007
Academic word list	26 October 2007
BNC spoken freq 01HWC	3 March 2008
BNC spoken freq 02HWC	24 July 2009
BNC spoken freq 03HWC	24 January 2013
BNC spoken freq 04HWC	13 February 2022
Basic English international wordlist	13 February 2022

February 13, 2022

I just completed the last entry on the BNC 04HWC list. The final word was trot. There are plenty more words under the headwords in the first 4 lists, not to mention words not on those lists, but if we want more headwords, we'll have to prep #5. There are 14 total BNC lists, so it's not like we're running out. They just become less and less frequently-used terms, follow the criteria of that project. But we've hit another milestone. Yay, us! --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 22:13, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I also just finished the last 3 entries from the Basic English international wordlist. The final word there was hysteria. It might feel like I'm being incredibly productive, but these three words (and the one above) were the last ones left from their respective lists today. I just thought it was silly not to finish them up. Even so, another list complete! --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 00:10, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

January 19, 2011

Wiktionary now has a new feature of having the statuses of word lists at the very top of each word list! Hydriz (talk) 16:17, 22 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

November 30, 2010

We started the voting contest of a new site logo! Hydriz (talk) 07:03, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

July 24, 2009

We've just completed the BNC2000 list of words! Last definition to be completed was "witness".--Brett 19:45, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As below, the completed list is in fact just the second group of 1000 headwords, not the full list of related words referenced above. None of the full lists are complete as of the date of this comment. --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 09:51, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

February 2009

Congratulations to our newest administrator, Razorflame!

Gadgets have been enabled here on the Simple English Wiktionary. I am not sure if it has been done properly, but I believe it has. Razor flame 20:44, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

January 2009

I recently discovered page view stats for our wiki [1]. There were 224,000 page views in January.--Brett 12:33, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also, congratulations to our new administrator, Coppertwig!

August 8, 2008

We have a new administrator: TBC.

April 8, 2008

I've tagged all the BNC1 words.--Brett 15:15, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

March 3, 2008

We've just completed the BNC1000 list of words! Last definition to be completed was "therefore".--TBC 07:24, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Just to clarify, the above statement refers to the headwords from the BNC1 list. The words under those headwords (admittedly a lot more than 1000 words) are still far from complete as of the date of my comment. --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 09:39, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

February 23, 2008

We have a new bureaucrat: Brett.

January 4, 2008

I believe I have now added entries for all the modern English prepositions as defined in the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.--Brett 11:51, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

December 27, 2007

We have two new administrators: Wenli and Tygartl1.

October 26, 2007

The entire set of 560 words from the Academic word list is now complete.

August 2, 2007

All words in the BE850 word list have been created.