So it looks like the English Wikipedia will have its millionth article posted today. In the meantime, I just can’t stop going back to Special:Statistics and hitting “refresh”. 999,131 at this post… more by the time any of you read it. <boggle> UPDATE: the millionth article was created at 23:09 UTC 1 March 2006. Looks [...] [...]
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Seems that last night, the English Wikipedia had its 950,000th article created. Not bad, eh? Now consider that they didn’t hit 500K until March 17 2005. Now consider that anonymous users have been unable to create articles since December 5. Now consider that the 900,000th article was only created on January 4. At this rate, [...] [...] There’s a new post on BoingBoing analyzing the differences between Wikipedia and more “traditional” media (in this case, The Register, which has never been fond of Wikipedia or the BoingBoing piece’s author, Cory Doctorow). While Doctorow does raise valid points, I’m a bit concerned… it seems as though he’s encouraging the subjects of biographical articles [...] [...] According to a message posted today to the WikiEN-l mailing list, the English Wikipedia has been out-pacing the BBC online presence in Alexa traffic for the past couple days. The BBC is currently ranked #23 on Alexa’s 3-month average; en.wikipedia is at #32. For today’s rank, though, en.wikipedia is at #20 and bbc.co.uk is #23. [...] [...] Howstuffworks publishes “How Wikis Work” and uses Wikipedia as its demo. Lots of activity on the usual vandal-targets, most of which happens while I’m on RC-patrol… but I can revert vandalism faster now. ph34r. [...] |
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