[Foundation-l] Re: Milestone

[Michael Snow]

Pete/Pcb21 wrote:

> When we passed 100,000 , 200,000 , 300,000 etc articles there was a 
> fair   bit of fanfare.
>
> I think it is only right therefore to announce that en passed the 
> 100,000,000 word mark earlier this month.
>
> This is about the same size as Columbia, Encarta Deluxe and EB put 
> together, and if printed would weigh about the same as George Bush.
>
> Across all languages we reached this milestone back in January, and 
> are now up to 220,000,000 words.
>
> Qualitätsoffensive, anyone?
>
> Pete/Pcb21 

Speaking of milestones, aren't we getting pretty close to one million 
articles covering all languages? A nice handy round number probably 
worthy of some fanfare. Are we planning a press release or other special 
efforts to publicize it, either externally or internally? Sometime in 
September looks like the target date, given our statistical direction.

--Michael Snow