Sj wrote:
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?
Answers:
1. I think the press release is great work, good job all around.
2. Yes, we should act quickly. Nothing kills the media's interest in a
press release quicker than being old news. Although news cycles being
what they are, once we hit the weekend it won't matter that much which
day it is, so might as well keep sending it out through Sunday.
3. Based on Alterego's calculation of the precise time (I'm not sure how
that was determined, but I'll take what I can get), the article that's
the closest match seems to be [[Involuntary settlements in the Soviet
Union]]. So congratulations to Mikkalai, and of course congratulations
to everybody who's helped make Wikipedia into a wonderful resource. Now
we just need to go and make that into a featured article!
--Michael Snow