Wikipedia talk:Milestones
2003-01-10 One million home page hits, but I just can't get myself to edit the Announcements page using it's horrific date format.
Could we get an update on the NYTimes article? It is still coming out, I hope. --KQ
I hope so too. --LMS
So is a Google PageRank of 7/10 good or bad? Where does that put us in relation to, say, msnbc, yahoo, altavista, etc.?
PageRanks of some importante pages:
- Wikipedia -- 7/10
- Recent Changes -- 7/10
- http://slashdot.org/ -- 8/10
- http://www.altavista.com/ -- 9/10
- http://www.yahoo.com/ -- 10/10
- Google -- 10/10
OK, think i am in favour of the ditching of subs. Will there be a new standard for /Talk page though? Page name Talk ?-- AW
I'm feeling dense here... where is the Wikipedia plugin available for AbiWord? I downloaded the current version of Abiword and there's no mention of it, and I can't find any plugin dlls in the folder. I'm on NT, and it is version 0.9.6 that I'm using.---- On www.sourceforge.net at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15518
at the end of the page.
Can we declare January 15 to be Wikipedia Day?
--Chuck Smith, who also enjoys celebrating Pi Day (March 14: do the math), and Zamenhof Day (December 15, birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, initiator of Esperanto).
(How about Star Wars day - May the Fourth? -- Khendon)
We could, but no one but Wikipedians would care! --LMS
Anybody know why the front page has a different count to the stats page, and which is 'right'? user:Verloren
- The front page counter counts "all pages without a ':' in the title that contain a comma in the text". The statistics page substracts some page types ("talk:", pages without a comma, "wikipedia:") from the total number of pages. Thus the different results. As far as I can tell, none of them is correct, as there's no definition of what make an article countable... --Magnus Manske, Monday, April 8, 2002
I really don't think it's necessary to announce when we hit every thousand article mark. I think every 5,000 and other important numbers (such as 33,333) should suffice... I mean, we write about 200 articles per day, right? --Chuck Smith
It makes sense to me as a way of keeping track of the rate of change for later analysis. Of course, I'd much prefer a page like log:Wikipedia statistics history 2002 or something, that was kept up-to-date automatically... The Anome
Well, why don't you use Wikipedia:Statistics history 2002 then? :-) --Chuck Smith
By the way, isn't 33, 333 / 100,000 ~= 1 / 3? Or are we talking in terms of time and estimating some kind of exponential or geometric growth model? :) --Robert Merkel
Somebody asked this question on the Announcements page:
- How does Wikipedia work?
- Is each article stored in its own file or is each article stored in its own record in a database?
The answer is: each article is stored in its own record in a database. For the nitty-gritty details on how the software works, see links from Wikipedia:PHP script. --Brion VIBBER, Friday, July 12, 2002
We hit 50,000 raw articles, but when was the last time the statistics were updated to reflect an estimated number of "real" (non-stub) articles?
Which article is number 100,000?
I am saddened on artilces mentionaing Wiktionary, they have not mentioned my name, o well c'est la vie. -fonzy