Brion Vibber wrote:
Aha, again demonstrating the obsession over the count. Why was it important to hit or not hit 100,000? Because of an offhand remark made a couple years ago about "we hope to reach 100,000 articles"?
When did this become our holy mission?
Well, as it turned out, a press release was created and sent out and we got press coverage about it. For better or worse.
the comma count : 109062 for length > 0 : 116199 <- for length > 500: 90991
This is interesting.
Tell you what. I'll hold off until Wednesday night. Come up with a consensus on a better system by then, or comma-count shall be replaced with not-blank-count circa 07:00 UTC, 13 March. (11pm on the 12th here in PST.)
How about we wait a bit longer than that, but set a good deadline.
This seems like a good place for us to have an experiment in voting, since it's a relatively minor issue, since there are a variety of opinions, etc.
Erik, will you take the lead in designing a page to present the alternatives and to collate the votes?
(I nominate Erik because he's a strong advocate of voting, and this gives him an opportunity to show how a voting system can shine.)
--Jimbo