On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Daniel Mayer wrote:
I propose (again) that the current definition be used for "entries" and a more stringent definition be used for "probable articles" (everything, of course, is still a page).
If the definition is changed after we pass the 100,000 article milestone, then we would quite likely end up in the embarrassing situation of dropping back below it again, and people who have seen the press reports might think we were lying! And then would we do another press release when we passed the same milestone the second time...? ;)
Of course, we could change the word "articles" to "entries" on the Main page and in the press release now, and then do a second press release when we get to 100,000 *articles*. The advantage in this would be that we would get another chance for publicity, but the disadvantage would be that we would look rather silly...
Alternatively, someone could quickly rewrite the article-counter to follow mav's proposed new definition *before* the milestone is passed, and then we'd only have one milestone to deal with, later in the year. But then we'd have got all excited this week for no reason...
Or we could just leave redefining what an article is until we have enough proper articles that changing the definition would still leave us above the 100,000 mark, which would probably be the easiest thing to do.
Oliver
+-------------------------------------------+ | Oliver Pereira | | Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science | | University of Southampton | | omp199@ecs.soton.ac.uk | +-------------------------------------------+