[Wikipedia-l] 300,000 is a much better milestone (was: Preparing for 150,000 articles)

[Ray Saintonge]

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>Andre Engels wrote:
>
>>I disagree. I think it is strange to count the various 
>>languages together into one number. Some of these 
>>articles are translations of each other, others are 
>>different articles about the same subject. 
>>
>
>We are talking about the progress of the project as a whole -our community 
>effort-, we /are not/ boasting about the relative merit of our encyclopedia 
>as a usable resource (using article count as a proxy). We need to make that 
>clear in the announcement. It takes a lot of work to create 300,000 articles 
>(including the ones that are translations). /That/ is what the milestone 
>statement is for. 
>
250,000 is a somewhat better milestone since it can be expressed as a 
"quarter million"

Ec.