[Wikipedia-l] Re: A facelift for the Main Page: Wikipedia Day and 100,000 articles soon

[Daniel Mayer]

On Saturday 04 January 2003 04:00 am, Alexander Stephen Bradbury wrote:
> I think the new main page is looking pretty good, I wouldn't mind changing
> the current one for it. I think going live with it on Wikipedia Day (if
> people agree, obviously) would be great. ... We definitely need a
> press release though. Some statistics (like in the PG newsletters) would
> be nice, what we've achieved, what we need to do. Has anyone drafted
> anything yet?
>
> ASB [[User:Smelialichu]]

Our first press release from a year ago is here:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia's_first_press_release--draft_for_comment

We can simply rewrite that to serve as this years version.

--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

WikiKarma Payment. Have you had you Wiki today?
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=January_6&diff=563902&oldid=563596
I also updated various pages linked from that page