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# 23 March 2009. 'Danielski-Dzwonkowski': 52. 'Lichtenstein-Majkowski': 67. 'Rutowicz-Schreiber'. 58 ~5%? Wikipiedia at that time had about 2,750,000 articles.

# 16 June 2009. 'Skowron-Spiczakow': 28. 'Przyalgowski-Retke': 65. 'Grodecki-Hoscki': 48. ~5%? Wikipiedia at that time had about 2,950,000 articles.

# 8 Dec 2010. 'Kisielinski-Korzelinski' 58. 'Olbrycht-Pawleta' - 66; 'Ebenberger-Gembicki' - 60. ~6%, and double the coverage of 2007. Wikipiedia at that time had about 3,500,000 articles.

# 23 May 2011. 'Gemma-Groddeck' 58; 'Rutowicz-Schreiber' - 70; 'Krzesinski-Lichtarowicz' - 61. Keeping at ~6%.

# 25 Oct 2011. 'Abakanowicz-Bienkowski' 57, 'Korzeniewski-Krzesimowski' 67, 'Skowron-Spiczakow' - 37. No change.

Updated conclusion (as of February '11): It appears that Wikipedia is growing faster in some other areas than in Polish biographies. Wikipedia coverage of Polish biographies have doubled between June '06 and December '10, but its total number of articles has grown almost threefold in that period (well, around 2.6 times). If we were to take June '09 or Dec '10 numbers and try to estimate the size of complete Wikipedia, we would get the number of ~60 million instead of 40, as the June '06 data would suggest. Of course, as the growth in Polish biographies have not kept pace with the growth of Wikipedia, it is obvious that it is hardly a perfect estimator. Assuming it is some kind of an estimator, we might as well take an average of those two results and call the ultimate, comprehensive size 50 million.