We've always known Glasgow was one-in-a-million 😎
For more than 20 years, Wikipedia has been the go-to corner of the internet for finding out information on everything from the phenotypic plasticity of Amazonian tree frogs to the annual passenger numbers for Glasgow's suburban railway stations.
On March 1, 2006, it was announced that the English version of the site had hit the one million mark with its entry for the West End station, created by Wikipedia contributor Ewan MacDonald.At 11pm that day, Ewan, better known on Wikipedia as Nach0king, posted a single sentence on Jordanhill Station - enough for it to achieve the site's much-vaunted milestone.
The non-profit online encyclopaedia was started in 2001 by Jimmy Wales, who set an original target of reaching 100,000 articles, which would make it as large as the most comprehensive edition Encyclopaedia Britannica. Within just two years, the fast-growing Wikipedia had smashed that threshold and has continued to expand ever since.
Commenting on his website reaching one million articles, Jimmy Wales said at the time: "We are thrilled that our millionth article in English is about the Jordanhill railway station.
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