I just came upon Wikipedia less than a week ago, in a search for the Underwood Tariff...but as I looked around I was so impressed with the work that I spent much of the last three days looking around; joined the email list, and have been plowing through the email and WikiPedia ever since.ever since.
The point is that people ARE finding the site.
As for Toby's press release...it could state a GOAL of surpassing Britannica, which might catch the attention of the big boys if for no reason than the audacity of it. Stranger things have happened!
Pat
Hardly anybody has a clue that we exist. Frankly, we're at the stage where "Any publicity is good publicity.". We could issue a press release claiming to surpass Britannic now, and it would be an obvious lie, but still good publicity in the end.
Pat wrote in part:
As for Toby's press release...it could state a GOAL of surpassing Britannica, which might catch the attention of the big boys if for no reason than the audacity of it. Stranger things have happened!
We already have issued such a press release, haven't we?
-- Toby
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 07:40:52 Toby Bartels wrote:
Pat wrote in part:
As for Toby's press release...it could state a GOAL of surpassing
Britannica,
which might catch the attention of the big boys if for no reason than
the
audacity of it. Stranger things have happened!
We already have issued such a press release, haven't we?
We did. It was successful - a couple of stories got written about it.
I'd like to suggest another occur at another milestone. I realise the problems with the article number targets, but they do serve as something useful to point to the media about. If we did, we'd of course have to be careful *not* to claim that "we have X number of articles, hence we're X/100,000 as good as Britannica at this point".
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