On 1/6/07, Keitei nihthraefn@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 6, 2007, at 15:46, Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
I guess I don't understand why Wikipedians would care about this, apart from preening.
Am I missing something?
Will being in the top ten help us to write a better encyclopedia in some way that being in the top 100 doesn't?
Being popular shows that we're useful to a good number of people, which indicates that we are doing a good job. Other than that... I have no idea.
"Yay, we're a success...."
"Oh, Crap, we're a success..."
(everyone who suffered personally and professionally from the dot-com boom's insane ramp-up, take a drink)