[WikiEN-l] 500k press release

Thu Mar 17 16:42:25 UTC 2005

Charles Matthews said:
> Sj wrote
>
>
>> I've put up a draft press release to celebrate the English WP's
>> 500,000th article here:
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/March_2005
>
>> It is not quite like our previous press releases; see what you think,
>> edit and improve on it.
>
> The current version looks pretty good to me - not a great deal I could
> see  to add, and it seems tightly and professionally written (I've done
> a few  press releases that have got into national newspapers).

The press release should make at least one reference to the fact that this
is a multilingual, cross-referenced encyclopedia, which alone makes
Wikipedia unique.