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Daniel Mayer wrote:

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Jimbo wrote:

It may just be me, but I think at this point we

should just wait

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a couple to a few weeks for the more inclusive and

exciting-sounding "one

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third of a million" milestone. The number of

non-English articles should also

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outnumber the English ones by then, so we could also

announce that.

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Good idea.

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What do others think? This could be something we

allow each Wikipedia version

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to decide on its own

The press release was worked on as a cross-language thing -- I think it should stay as such.

I can read this only with a lot of pain. The press release was not only written to be a cross language thing, but it was also written to announce what it is announcing today.

Either the site is ok (perhaps in a couple of days) and we send the release Either it is not, and we just abandon the proposition.

For me, one third million does not speak any better than 300 000. I would even say it does not sound as good, as the reader does not see jackpot numbers on front of his eyes.

I try

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE : WIKIPEDIA atteint 300 000 articles

versus

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE : WIKIPEDIA atteint un tiers de million d'articles

sorry, that is ugly

in any case, if technical limitations are an argument, 33000 more articles are not.

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