Maybe this is not the most popular item, but I do like to comment on the news about Japanese and Polish Wikipedias and their 500,000 articles each. In fact, jp.WP actually has 500,000, but pl.WP does not. In an attempt to compare Wikipedia language editions I have clicked the button "random articles" and with a sample of 50 clicks each I have calculated how many articles a language edition really has, minus all those pseudo articles. A pseudo article is e.g. http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini http://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/191 http://ksh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsseveld http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandil http://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplar_Bluff Many Wikipedias loose, in my calculation, quite a huge percentage of their articles. There is one honourable exception: Japanese Wikipedia, which in 50 clicks showed absolutely no pseudo article. If Japanese Wikipedia would have such a floppy policy about new articles as many others have, jp.WP were already close to one million "articles". Pl.WP has for about 300,000 real articles, very respectable, but not what it seems to be. Since the beginnings, Wikipedians report about the number of articles, having to tell something about to the media and to be proud about their achievements. They rank Wikipedia language editions by the number of articles. This has caused tragical dynamics: many Wikipedians and Wikipedias are so obsessed with this number that they produce rubbish articles to show off. Volapük Wikipedia with more than 100,000 pseudo articles created by a single bot using user is only the top of the iceberg, and when someone called to close vo.WP, vo.WP was supported by a amazing number of users from many language editions: cosi fan tutte. Wikipedians could and should use their time for more useful article work. It would be good if the community found a different way to compare or to measure it's successes. Ziko