Re: 300, 000 has arrived - but don't get to excited yet...

Stevertigo <utilitymuffinresearch2-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.international
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--- Daniel Mayer <maveric149-/[email protected]> wrote:
> That's right - we now have over 300,000 articles in
> our MediaWiki Wikipedia 
> versions (over 320,000 counting the UseMod
> Wikipedias). 

I forget-- does this figure count talk/meta/user
pages?

> However, we are just too darn popular already and
> our poor server is just too 
> overworked for us to make an official announcement
> of this fact to the world 
> yet. Therefore I suggest that everyone wait until
> two days after our servers 
> are upgraded before distributing any press releases
> (en.wikipedia's version 
> will still be distributed one week after non-English
> distribution to even out 
> server load). 

Is this "two days" an arbitrary date, or should we
just wait for Brion, Tim, etal.. to say "OK bring em
on."

~S~

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