At 13:36 +0000 22/3/06, Chris McKenna wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Gordon Joly wrote:
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/Millio…
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
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