At 03:40 AM 9/21/2002 -0700, Toby Bartels wrote:
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.
If there were a press release that said we surpassed Britannica and a whole bunch of people came out and then someone makes a big fuss about how we don't really pass Britannica then people will remember Wikipedia in a bad way. Then when 100,000 articles is released then everyone will say "Oh yeah, I remember when they said they passed Britannica - what a disappointment - I won't bother checking them out again."
You always want any publicity to be modest so when someone comes they will be pleasantly surprised. They will remember us as being more then they expected which will keep us in a positive light.