On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, it's good to remind folks that "article count" is not a good metric as it fails to take into account the cultural norms within the language communities.
A year ago, some admins at de.wp (including me) tried and failed to replace the "article count" on the de.wp front page by a rather vague statement of "hundreds of thousands of articles" along with the counter for articles with the "featured article" status. Not that it would be impossible to compromise that number, but at least I felt it was something worth focusing on to display it to our visitors.
Mathias