A press release announces things after they occurred. Not before.
I would say that when people work on something great, it is cool to
announce a big milestone. But of course, if no one is interested, there
will be no press release.
Ant
Cary Bass wrote:
Oh my goodness... I can just see it... people
uploading images just to have
the 1000000th. One out of two images will be copyrighted...
Oh, the inhumanity!
/me is very afraid of a press release announcing this :)
Cary Bass
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>Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 7:01 PM
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>Subject: [Commons-l] press release
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I may just fall entirely out of the spot, but... is there a group of
>people working on a press release for the 1000000 of commons ?
>
>I looked around a bit and found only this
>*http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Communique_sur_le
>_million_de_Commons
>(in french, from the french association)
>*http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_logo_mosaic/Construct
>ionNotes
>(this gorgious new logo)
>
>When is thd 1M expected ?
>
>ant
>
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