[Wikipedia-l] Sometimes, there is every reason to be

Sun Oct 5 13:44:16 UTC 2003

From: Richard Grevers <lists at dramatic.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Sometimes, there is every
reason to be

>> Could english people please *stop* creating new
>> articles for a couple of days ?

>If wikipedia continues to be completely uncontactable
>as it is for me 
>this 
>morning, you will have your wish :-) But If it is
>unreachable then I 
>guess 
>fr can't make new articles either.

Seems we are in the same bath

>> What about 2/3 days when all of you make an effort,
>> and head to your second favorite language
wikipedia,
>> and create a few ones for the press release to be
>> correct ?

>Although I got ridiculously high marks in my school
>French exams, you 
>really wouldn't want my attempts at writing it :-)

We have a contributor who is mostly contributing in
english, so...

>> How many do we need ?
>
>At least 11,000 across all languages other than en.
>(en had 161,000 
>yesterday)

Well, except for a bot, we have no chance then.

It seems everything is heading for a big crash again :-(

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