On 19/12/2011 13:35, Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 19 December 2011 13:26, Gordon
Joly<gordon.joly(a)pobox.com> wrote:
On 17/12/2011 00:06, Andy Mabbett wrote:
I learned
today that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanhill_railway_station was the
one-millionth English Wikipedia article
I millionth article....
"approximately"?
No. There's a link to a FAQ on the article's
talked page, which
explains the metrics used.
I read this
http://bit.ly/rWtSLz which shows that the article numbered
at 999,999 (One million articles) does not exist....
A counter was set to measure the creation of articles, many of which
were deleted later deleted, and the counter reached 1,000,000 for
"Jordanhill station"
In other words, when "Jordanhill station" was created there were less
that one million live articles live on the English Wikipedia just like
"One million articles" is now (it is red).
Gordo
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