Hi Anthere!
The french wikipedia just made it to 50 000 articles today.
Great! Congratulations to all the contributors of the French Wikipedia! The German Wikipedia hat a big media boost at that time, I hope there will happen something similar in France.
That's a nice story about the stubs. I think it's important for every Wiki to have some people around from the very beginning of the project, who can tell what the site looked like one, two or three years ago. Especially on VfD I often see newbies complaining about stubs, and sometimes also long-time contributors are frustrated and start complaining that things are getting worse. The truth is: Things are getting better, from day to day. Sometimes I send people to archive.org [1], and they can't believe what they see. :-)
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/*/de.wikipedia.com
Kurt