German Wikipedia hits 60 million...

Am 21. August 1965 wurde die Sozialistische Republik Rumänien ausgerufen. Führender Mann des Landes wurde Nicolae Ceauşescu, der nach dem Tod von Gheorghiu-Dej das Amt des Generalsekretärs der Kommunistischen Partei übernommen hatte.

...edits, that is:

1 000 000+ articles

№	Language	Language (local)	Articles	Total	Edits	Users
1	English	English	2,791,250	16,077,950	292,180,037	9,181,259

100 000+ articles

№	Language	Language (local)	Articles	Total	Edits	Users
2	German	Deutsch	878,566	2,516,754	59,990,034	719,794
3	French	Français	777,540	3,066,342	41,374,281	563,636
4	Polish	Polski	587,249	1,026,738	17,073,870	258,856
5	Japanese	日本語	570,177	1,452,369	25,315,426	292,307
6	Italian	Italiano	549,189	1,651,330	24,886,013	364,819
7	Dutch	Nederlands	524,816	1,226,114	16,381,755	223,356
8	Portuguese	Português	465,700	1,809,952	14,685,222	518,603
9	Spanish	Español	453,182	1,585,060	26,283,579	1,001,223
10	Russian	Русский	368,433	1,335,940	14,866,610	241,752

There's always a bit of a delay on that list, and if you look at the German Wikipedia's raw stats here you can see that they've already passed 60 million.

Though bots travelling from wiki to wiki to update links can also inflate edits to a certain extent, overall the number of edits is usually a better sign of the quality of a Wikipedia than the number of articles, which is why the Spanish Wikipedia is actually a much better quality Wikipedia than you might first be led to believe upon seeing that it's only in 9th place, below even Dutch and Polish. In terms of quality though the Spanish Wikipedia is about tied with Italian and Japanese.

German has actually been in about the same place for the last few years, always in second place, and always with about 100,00 more articles than French and about 50% more edits.

In other news, the German-language newspaper Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung fur Rumanien in Romania has turned 60. I should have guessed this by the title alone, but the only way the magazine could be 60 years old would be if it had a socialist bent, meaning that it was first produced by East Germany until the two countries united and the name was changed to the current one. The old name was Neuer Weg.