[Wikipedia-l] Re: "We started in January 2001..."

[Daniel Mayer]

On Friday 11 October 2002 09:27 pm, Kpjas wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> "We started in January 2001 and are already working on 52607 articles (in
> the English version)..."
>
> Is there an easy way to change this sentence on the opening (main)
> page of www.wikipedia.org to reflect (even estimated) the total
> number of pages created by all Wikipedias ?

I'm sure this is possible but I'm also pretty sure the code for it hasn't been 
written yet. This is a great idea BTW. 

> This will be a small step towards making Wikipedia one unified project.
>
> Regards,
> Kpjas.

We are already working on a portal page for the whole project at Metapedia. 
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.org
If approved, this page will be hosted at www.wikipedia.org and the English 
Wikipedia will be at en.wikipedia.org.  

This is a lot better than trying to make the English Wikipedia Main Page also 
be the Portal Page for the whole project. Under a couple of plans, the 
welcome message on the portal page will also be translated into many 
different languages in the same way as the Main Page for Metapedia is now 
translated. This also requires a different character set than the one used by 
the English Wikipedia - thus the English Wikipedia and the portal page needs 
to be separate (at least I think this is the case - developers, would it be 
possible to have a different character set for just one page in a wiki?).

{{NUMBEROFARTICLESALLLANGUAGES}},  {{NUMBEROFLANGUAGES}} and 
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES-XX}} (where XX is a language code) would be very useful 
things to have on a portal page for the whole project.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)