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We've broken 2,000 articles! As of this writing, we have 2,144 individual pages. This enormous jump in production is due to the massive influx of people from the Slashdot.org mention of Wikipedia--contrary to fears, people who seem to understand what's going on here very well and are (it seems) rapidly getting addicted. :-) |
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As impressive as the 2,000 mark sounds, it's misleading, because very many of the pages are redirection pages and "one-liners." A slightly more accurate count can be achieved by using the search function (at the bottom of every page) to search for "," (comma). This excludes redirection pages and many one-liners. At present, the count of "comma" articles is at 1,323. Still very impressive. |
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[[Jimbo Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]] and no doubt some others think Wikipedia's going to be huge. |
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I am adding a page called NobelPrize, where we can list all the winners by category, and eventually fill in with short biographies. |
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We're up to 617 pages. Very many of these have substantial and what appears to be reliable information. I predict 1,000 by February 15. [[Wikipedia]] is growing steadily in breadth and depth. |
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'''January 27, 2001''' |
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Some interesting activity has been happening on WikipediaL lately. RequestedArticles page added. |
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'''January 26, 2001''' |
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Exciting developments are happening on the BritannicaPublicDomain, WhichWikiShouldWeUse, and BadJokesAndOtherDeletedNonsense pages. |
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'''January 25, 2001''' |
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Since this wiki first started, January 10, 2001, we have made 270 pages! Wow! |
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PootPoot. |
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'''January 24, 2001''' |
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[[Wikipedia]] has definitely taken a life of its own; new people are arriving every day and the project seems to be getting only more popular. Long live [[Wikipedia]]! |
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'''January 22, 2001''' |
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GNU people are using [[Wikipedia]] to discuss their stuff, which is very cool. Go to GNUStufF to partake. |
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'''January 21, 2001''' |
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Wikipedia-L (see WikipediaL), a new mailing list for Wikipedia, now exists! |
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''On January 15, 2001, Wikipedia.com "went public." An earlier version existed briefly on Nupedia.com from Jan. 10-15.'' |
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Revision as of 21:34, 7 March 2001
Got an announcement? So, make it!
March 7, 2001
We've broken 2,000 articles! As of this writing, we have 2,144 individual pages. This enormous jump in production is due to the massive influx of people from the Slashdot.org mention of Wikipedia--contrary to fears, people who seem to understand what's going on here very well and are (it seems) rapidly getting addicted. :-)
As impressive as the 2,000 mark sounds, it's misleading, because very many of the pages are redirection pages and "one-liners." A slightly more accurate count can be achieved by using the search function (at the bottom of every page) to search for "," (comma). This excludes redirection pages and many one-liners. At present, the count of "comma" articles is at 1,323. Still very impressive.
Jimbo Wales and Larry Sanger and no doubt some others think Wikipedia's going to be huge.
March 6, 2001
Jimbo was wrong! We have had a massive influx of people writing a lot of interesting, good articles. Nothing to fear, it seems! March 5 really was a sort of banner day--probably set a record in terms of number of edits and number of new articles.
If you've got a minute, think about publicizing Wikipedia. Think about leveraging effort--in the time it takes you to write two decent articles, you might be able to get ten people on board who can write ten decent articles apiece.
March 5, 2001
The Slashdot interview just now appeared on Slashdot.org, but the link to this site is buried fairly deeply. So we may not have the massive influx that I had hoped and feared. :-) --Jimbo Wales
March 3, 2001
The how does one edit a page page has been given a thorough overhaul. Wiki experts, please help edit that page!
February 28, 2001
Jimbo Wales is being interviewed by Slashdot, and the interview may appear tomorrow (Thursday) morning. He mentioned Wikipedia in the interview, and we may experience a substantial surge in traffic. Based on what has happened to other wikis mentioned on slashdot, we might expect to see some vandalism. If all the active participants could log in a bit more often tomorrow to keep an eye on things, that would be great.
Notice, we've added a little something to the top of the page: "Get involved! Wikipedia is a free community project!" And also another "Edit text of this page" link, now at the top of the page. We're hoping to make it clear to visitors unfamiliar with the wiki concept (which is most of them) that this is a community-edited project.
February 19, 2001
We have now upgraded to version 0.91 of the UseModWiki Wiki software. This will allow us to have Free Links!
Also -- Google has found us! Only a few hits so far..
February 12, 2001
I think we are over 1000 pages now. If we create 1000 pages a month, we will be able to hit 100,000 pages in only 8 years. However, I think that as we grow, we will attract more people to work on the pages, and we'll end up growing faster and faster.
So far, the search engines have not found us. --Jimbo Wales
February 8, 2001
We're up to 900 pages as of this morning!
There are whispers that the newest version of the software that runs Wikipedia will soon arrive. This means no longer will we have to indicate links LikeThis.
Bomis.com has put up a link to Wikipedia, Nupedia.com has taken theirs down (from the main page) but put up a new one in the member area which supplements the one already on the about page.
February 6, 2001
Inspired by Wikipedia, I started an similar project for my local Esperanto group. It uses real html.
If you are interested in or if you have any suggestions, just give me a hint! -- norman.werner@student.uni-magdeburg.de
Please post the address of your wiki, please!
February 5, 2001
TimShell is working on an enormous "Cliff Notes"-style summary of Ayn Rand's book AtlasShrugged. We have also been graced with an enormous entry about ErnestHemingway.
We've added some RulesToConsider for you to consider, sign, modify, and add to. But those of you who don't like rules can go about your business. Ain't wiki great? :-)
February 1, 2001
TimShell found this cool image file: http://www.wikipedia.com/wikia.gif
I uploaded it to the server. I suspect we should resave it as a different file type.
I have also uploaded LarrysText to the server, so now Wikipedia has a veritable boatload of philosophical content. Now all we have to do is wikify it and remove the bullshit. :-) -- Larry Sanger
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