2009/8/22 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com>: > 2009/8/21 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>: > >> 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. > > > I'd like to have a big fuss over the "TWO BILLION WORDS" milestone, > though that's a way off yet. TWO BILLION WORDS. Holy crap, that's a > LOT of text. > > Your Featured Articles suggestion is good, though we must keep in mind > that the en:wp FA requirements keep ratcheting upwards, such that the > total pretty closely tracks 0.1% of the article count.
The main article growth rate is dropping, though, so the FA count might get a chance to catch up. I don't really see that that is a problem, anyway, more FAs is more FAs, regardless of how many other articles there are. Standards climbing is better than standards dropping, although that increase is standards is part of what made me suggest including GAs too. A GA today isn't far off an FA when they were started. Actually, it's probably stricter - we weren't too good at references back then. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
