Hello all,

I am very excited by the first press release for wikimedia. Incidently, I thank the one who suggested a multilingual release (I think it is Mav, but messages get a lost among 95 digests...well..). Whether the english wikipedia has a release for 200000 is good and should be done, but a common release for the fundation is ... the good way imho.

Anticipating :

1) It may have been said somewhere, but when can we roughly said to have reach 300 000 together ? It does not need to be very precise since no journalists will be able to check numbers really :-) will it be before or after the 200 000 ? How much time should we respect between these two releases ?

2) When is decided that the time is the good one for the press release, could we organise a sort of schedule ? Each time the english wiki has a press release, everything is slowed down, last time the german release also had a clear impact on availability. Should not we a bit try to schedule an order among wikis, or some rough dates, so we can smooth the peak ?

3) the links at the bottom of the message are all english wikipedia oriented ? I saw Youssef translation kept the english links. Have other wikis did the same or should not we when possible have each wiki links (for best prose; wikipedia description...)

4) Eclecticology (and other canadian friends)...could you look for sending the release to a major canadian press web site for the french wikipedia ? We need more canadians on the fr ;-)

Away

Anthere

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