Viquipèdia, the Catalan-language Wikipedia, has hit 600,000 articles. The milestone article (in Catalan, clearly) is dedicated to Pura Velarde, a feminist and social activist, and was written by Xavier Dengra.
The Catalan version was the first non-English Wikipedia to have an article created. On 16th March 2001, the website was inaugurated with the article àbac (abacus), minutes after the German Wikipedia went online, although that would remain empty for its first weeks. Since then, 312,000 editors have contributed to the project. They reached 1,000 articles on 8th March 2003; 10,000 on 16th November 2004; and 100,000 on 18th January 2008. The milestone of 250,000 was reached on 29th June 2010 and 500,000 on 11th March 2016. It is currently the 20th largest version in terms of number of articles.
The group Amical Wikimedia note that the 600,000 article point has been reached in part thanks to a project Viquidones ("Wikiwomen") to add biographies to counter the encyclopedia's current gender imbalance. The community also has a number of other projects and competitions to "fill in topical and historical gaps".
Currently, of the 303 versions of Wikipedia in different languages, Catalan is 20th in terms of number of articles, between Serbian and Norwegian.
In 2018, it was consulted 196.5 million times, 36th most often of all versions. The most read article was that about the president in exile, Carles Puigdemont.