[Wikipedia-l] 300,000 is a much better milestone (was: Preparing for 150,000 articles)

[Daniel Mayer]

Andre Engels wrote:
>I disagree. I think it is strange to count the various 
>languages together into one number. Some of these 
>articles are translations of each other, others are 
>different articles about the same subject. 

We are talking about the progress of the project as a whole -our community 
effort-, we /are not/ boasting about the relative merit of our encyclopedia 
as a usable resource (using article count as a proxy). We need to make that 
clear in the announcement. It takes a lot of work to create 300,000 articles 
(including the ones that are translations). /That/ is what the milestone 
statement is for. 

Community.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)