2009/8/20 Erik Zachte <erikzac...@infodisiac.com>: > Too often I see people bragging how they managed to 'one up' another > Wikipedia in the rankings. > I think it would help if we discouraged any bragging on the 4th millionth > article in the English Wikipedia at all and downplayed any inquiries from > the media.
Milestones are important, especially for PR purposes. We just need to work out which milestones should be emphasised. For small Wikipedias number of articles is probably a good choice, for larger ones, particularly the English Wikipedia, it probably isn't. We need to start emphasising quality more than quantity (everyone knows we have lots and lots of articles - that's not news!). A few months ago we passed the 2,500 FA milestone on enwiki and I completely missed it - that would have been a good milestone to make a big deal about. We should make a big deal out of the 3000 FA milestone when we get there (probably about a year's time, judging by a quick glance at the FA stats page). FAs+GAs is approaching 10,000, though - we'll probably reach that in a couple of months - I suggest issuing a press release for that milestone in an attempt to get the media interested in the quality of Wikipedia articles. (Obviously self-assessed quality is only of limited value, but external assessment doesn't happen very often.) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
