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[edit] Search change
I've done a couple of changes to MediaWiki:Searchnoresults, to include links to site searches on the three linked engines - what with the index being so far behind (and the mediawiki search engine being so rubbish not very good). As this is likely to affect most people at some time, I'm posting here to invite discussion (crossposting to WP:VPT, please comment on that (WP:VPT) page). Thanks -- Martinp23 22:53, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DE-WIKIPEDIA --> 500,000
the DE-WIKIPEDIA reached 500,000 articels --Dirk | <°°> 01:13, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Janina Korowicka is still red ;-) --Ü 02:21, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed new Wikipedia templates
I'm amazed that someone out there not only understands Wikipedia this well, but can write jokes about us that are funny. -- llywrch 00:58, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
- That's the funniest thing I've seen since... well... last week. Thanks for sharing! ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs) 18:12, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 1,500,000th article
The 1,500,000th article has been created. Anyone know how to tell which one it was? --Xyzzyplugh 21:09, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- Last time I checked the statistics, I saw 1,500,043 as the number. After going to Special:Newpages as part of my patrol, I counted down from the top of the page, excluded the last 43 posted, and came up with this rundown:
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- 42. 21:06, 24 November 2006 We Come 1 (hist) [1,630 bytes] Haza-w (Talk | contribs) (Created article)
- 43. 21:06, 24 November 2006 Janina Korowicka (hist) [504 bytes] Slgrandson (Talk | contribs) (Creating EN version of 500,000th German Wikipedia article)
- 44. 21:06, 24 November 2006 Hotel Torni (hist) [663 bytes] Darin-0 (Talk | contribs)
- 45. 21:06, 24 November 2006 Alonzo Jackson (hist) [722 bytes] Leemays (Talk | contribs)
- 46. 21:06, 24 November 2006 Briastre (hist) [718 bytes] Hektor (Talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'Briastre')
- 42. 21:06, 24 November 2006 We Come 1 (hist) [1,630 bytes] Haza-w (Talk | contribs) (Created article)
- May I unofficially congratulate Darin-0 (talk • contribs • count) for creating Hotel Torni, our milestone article. If I am wrong, please run an SQL query and tell me who deserved this honour. --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 22:55, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- We delete 1 article for every 3 we create, so the total number of articles grows only about 2/3 as fast as the Newpages log grows. Hence you probably need to go about 50% further to find the article that was 1,500,000 at the time it was created. There is (or at least was) special logging software created just to track down milestones like this. One could also try to back out this information be interleaving the newpages and deletion logs to figure out how the total evolved as a competition between these two processes. Dragons flight 23:04, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed. The 1,500,000 actually keeps changing all the time, and therefore we need to find the article who first got there, rather than finding the current one. Michaelas10 (Talk) 07:58, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- We delete 1 article for every 3 we create, so the total number of articles grows only about 2/3 as fast as the Newpages log grows. Hence you probably need to go about 50% further to find the article that was 1,500,000 at the time it was created. There is (or at least was) special logging software created just to track down milestones like this. One could also try to back out this information be interleaving the newpages and deletion logs to figure out how the total evolved as a competition between these two processes. Dragons flight 23:04, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Yay go Wikipedia 1,500,000 not long to 2,000,000 now! :) --WikiSlasher 01:15, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Special:Statistics says it excludes many articles. Did you exclude those articles from counting the 43 backwards? – b_jonas 16:28, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Please refer to the above discussion. Michaelas10 (Talk) 16:37, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
The anouncement says the lucky article was Kanab Ambersnail, although the creator's Talk page seems to indicate that it was one of four possible candidates, and the others were inconsequential. It looks like we'll never know. --YbborT 22:37, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, Kanab was chosen solely as a symbolic 1.5m article, simply because there was no organization to find the formal milestone article. This article has the most opportunity for growth, and is the most important, being an endangered species, versus a hotel and an American football player. -- Zanimum 16:49, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] And another milestone
Wikimedia Commons now has over 1 million uploaded files! There is a press release about the achievement, which also serves as a good introduction to Commons for anyone not familiar with it. the wub "?!" 18:05, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
