Thanks for the feedback, Charles and Tony. I'll make some tweaks in
an hour or so to make sure it mentions our amazing multilingualism,
and highlights our popularity /as a reference work/, if I can think of
a good way to slip it in.
I was planning to leave a couple days for people to set up a new
press-log, and think about who to contact; and then send out the
releases all at once this Sunday. However, people are already
starting to write about us reaching the half-million mark, not least
b/c of Jimbo's presentation yesterday at e-tech. See for instance the
Inquirer:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21909
What do you all think? Should we send out press releases
tommorrow/Saturday, to be as timely as possible? Also, what was the
500,000th article?
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:29:17 -0000, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
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).
Just one aspect, and perhaps not so newsworthy. There is not much emphasis
given to the scholarly side.
It could say a little more about WP's stature as a reference site.
Charles
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