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.
-- ++SJ
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.
Yeah.
On 27/02/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
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. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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We could at least link to an FAQ about the counting method, and what it means. It's certainly not meaning*less*, but does allow for confusion.
On a tangent, while naming a "millionth" article might not be terribly meaningful, having some regular WP zeitgeist -- every hundredth edit, every tenth article created and deleted (by namespace) -- could be quite useful.
Also, today may be the last day to enter the 2-million article pool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pools
SJ
On 2/28/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
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. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
Hi Wikipedians,
SJ schrieb am 28.02.2006 22:29:
We could at least link to an FAQ about the counting method, and what it means. It's certainly not meaning*less*, but does allow for confusion.
Well, Mathias 'presroi' Schindler already started one (still in the work) for german wikipedia - perhaps you are able to re-translate it :-)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Mathias_Schindler/1m_auf_en
Bye, Tim.
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