On 2/27/06, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
The English Wikipedia is approaching its millionth article this week. A tidy milestone. We are working on a press release for the event: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PR/1M-en
If you are interested in helping identify the millionth article, please leave a note on the talk page.
Wouldn't it be nice if our press release talks about how meaningless this statistic is, and notes, for example, how the patent office recently cheated in its identification of the 7 millionth patent?
Or we could just keep on encouraging innumeracy to get the cute little CNN spot.