Hi,
The french wikipedia just made it to 50 000 articles
today.
I must say... I cheated, so as to ensure I would do
the 50 000 article :-)
I prepared a collection of stubs and saved them in a
row at the right moment :-) The trick was to save the
right article for the 50 000...
Cough.
When I first edited the french wikipedia, it was
mostly a collection of stubs, perhaps 5 serious
articles and 100 stubs. Then months after months,
articles got better, more complete. And while they
grew, more and more contributors started complaining
against stubs, which they judge dishonest toward the
readers and not worth for the project.
In summer 2002 (the wikipedia was still in the first
version of the software then, so there was no notion
of namespaces, and about 700 pages all included), a
new editor joigned, Tim (Athymik). Tim has now left
wikipedia.
Tim often wrote stubs; he wrote many in human biology.
One day, he wrote a stub, which could even be called
substubs, the most famous of which was the article on
the apple.
The '''apple''' is a [[fruit]].
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Pomme&oldid=180858085.
This one, and with it, several other articles on
fruits (the pear is a fruit etc...) was really
borderline :-)
After Tim wrote several of those, some people
protested (definitly, me included).
A reference of this discussion is here
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discuter%3APoire (this is
the discussion page of the pear).
The article on the apple is now here :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomme
A year later, ''the apple is a fruit'' had become a
real article. The pirannah affect was born.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia%3AEffet_piranha
Tim throw a few bits on a page, and the other editors
ate them. I think that "the apple is a fruit" became a
historical reference.
Later, Tim grew tired of Wikipedia, and after he
dropped his sysop status, he left. I regretted him,
because we both played a lot having anonymous funny
exchanges on Wikipedia.
Today, I made as the 50 000 article, la n�fle, the
medlar.
The medlar is a fruit.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=N%C3%A8fle&oldid=784091
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A8fle
The expression "Des n�fles" also means in french
"something of little value"
Just as a stub is in itself of little value.
In doing this, the stub-n�fle, I wished to remind
editors that if a stub has nothing very exciting, it
is a start. Our collective additions give our common
project its value.
I also wished to remind that even if Wikipedia is
quite young, Wikipedia also has an history. And I
wanted to thank all those who brought quite a lot and
who are now gone, such as Athymik and so many others,
who left some memories, who left content and who are
now gone.
Thanks to all of them for what their participation.
I'll see what the n�fle article is in one year from
now. Hopefully in 10 years :-) Hehe.
ant
Les plus anciens se souviendront de cette histoire que
je vais vous relater. Il existait dans les temps
anciens un contributeur nomm� Tim. Tim est parti
depuis de long mois maintenant, mais il fut un
contributeur important � une �poque.
Dans ces d�buts, la majeure partie de l'encyclop�die
�tait constitu� de stubs (je pourrais probablement
dire que le projet comptait environ 100 stubs quand je
l'�ditait - anonymement - la premi�re fois. Au cours
des mois, les articles se sont am�lior�s enrichis. Et
de nouveaux contributeurs se sont mis � ronchonner
contre les stubs, jug�s peu dignes du projet.
Un jour, Tim �crivit une s�rie de stubs, � la limite
de l'indignit�. Un de ces stubs fut celui de la
[[pomme]]. Je vous invite � voir l'article de l'�poque
:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Pomme&oldid=180858085.
Apr�s que Tim eu �crit plusieurs articles du m�me
genre, plusieurs personnes protest�rent (dont moi, car
en effet, ce genre de stub ne m'enchante pas). Vous
trouverez une petite r�f�rence ici :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discuter%3APoire (la
poire ayant subi le m�me outrage que la pomme).
L'effet pirannah �tait n�. Tim jeta en pature quelques
miettes, et les autres �diteurs firent le reste.
Presque deux ans plus tard, vous pouvez lire ce qu'il
deveint de la [[poire]] (certes moins belle que la
pomme). Voir ainsi [[Wikip�dia:Effet piranha]].
Puis Tim s'est lass�, et, apr�s avoir quitt� son
statut d'admin, il est parti. Je l'ai regrett�, car
j'aimais jouer � l'�diteur anonyme avec lui (jeu
r�ciproque).
En recr�ant comme 50 000 article la [[n�fle]], j'ai
voulu � la fois rappeler aux m�moires que, m�me si un
stub n'a rien d'excitant, c'est un point de d�part, et
que nos ajouts collectifs donnent sa valeur � notre
projet commun. J'ai voulu aussi rappeler que m�me si
jeune, Wikip�dia a d�j� une histoire, et remercier
ceux qui ont d�j� beaucoup apport�s, et sont partis,
comme [[Utilisateur:Athymik]] ou [[Utilisateur:Curry]]
(suspendu en plein vol), ou [[Utilisateur:Tibo]] ou
tellement d'autres, qui sont pass�s, qui ont laiss�
leur trace, et qui sont repartis. Merci � eux et �
vous tous :-)
ant
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