Rob Church wrote:

I take "very very cute" to be Wales demonstrating common sense and endorsing the opinion shared by myself and about five others on this list that it's a rather silly idea and smacks of corniness.

Yeah, but I like corniness. :)

Rob Church

On 02/03/06, Nicholas Moreau nicholasmoreau@gmail.com wrote:

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If you don't know already, the English Wikipedia has reached 1 million articles.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Publish...

Number 1,000,000 is on the Jordanhill railway station in Jordanhill, Glasgow, Scotland. Someone proposed on the talk page that a plaque commermorating this article be erected, and Jimmy has said that such an idea is "very, very cute", but hasn't said whether the Foundation would formally endorse such a plan.

If the Foundation supports it, and we actually convince the station that we're not lunatics, would Wikimedia UK be willing/ready/able to run a press photo-op related to this?

Nick Moreau "Zanimum" Canada

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At 11:20 -0500 19/3/06, Jimmy Wales wrote:

Rob Church wrote:

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I take "very very cute" to be Wales demonstrating common sense and endorsing the opinion shared by myself and about five others on this list that it's a rather silly idea and smacks of corniness.

Yeah, but I like corniness. :)

Put up a guerilla plaque at railway station. Corn gets my vote: cornology is a subject I study deeply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_plaque

"The Dead Comics' Society installs blue plaques to commemorate notable comedians' places of residence, including Sid James and John Le Mesurier."

BTW, can any "Wiki Workers of the World" demonstrably audit that this article was indeed number 1.000.000 and not 999.999, 1.000.001 or just any article nearby?

Gordo

At 13:36 +0000 22/3/06, Chris McKenna wrote:

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Gordon Joly wrote:

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BTW, can any "Wiki Workers of the World" demonstrably audit that this article was indeed number 1.000.000 and not 999.999, 1.000.001 or just any article nearby?

According to the Wikipedia Signpost: "Because of the problems in identifying the half-millionth article (see archived story), developers Tim Starling and Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason were prepared with precise monitoring tools this time."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-03-06/Million...

Chris

So... what is the base line?

What was is the first article?

What counts? If articles are deleted within say 24 hours, do they count towards the total or not?

I note this list:

* 999,996 Bobby Smith (baseball player) * 999,997 Temporal coding * 999,998 Steve Cox * 999,999 One million articles * 1,000,000 Jordanhill railway station * 1,000,001 Squidoo * 1,000,002 Tennessee Commissioner of Financial Institutions * 1,000,003 Aaron Ledesma * 1,000,004 Cellular architecture

I had quick look at some of these:

Steve Cox: just two edits (same timestamp in seconds as the one millionth)

2006-03-01 23:09:08 BorgHunter (Creation) 2006-03-02 05:05:27 D6 m (adding category:Living people)

Jordanhill railway station

2006-03-01 23:09:08 Nach0king 2006-03-01 23:13:30 Cyde (Not everyone knows where Glasgow is. (It's in Scotland).) 2006-03-01 23:24:17 Greudin (WOUHOU, THE 1000 000th article !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 2006-03-01 23:29:28 Leflyman (Added note of millionth status -- Woohoo!)

Maybe I am wrong here, and please do correct me.

And I do so like to be corrected.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squidoo

This has timestamps such as:

2005-10-10 10:24:51 203.117.165.66 2005-10-10 10:29:03 Slicecast

A mistake?

Gordo