All, As a result of the Write-a-Thon yesterday, we broke 3,000 articles! Woo-hoo!
Well, extrapolating from month-old numbers generated by Aleksander Stos, we probably have over 4,000, but we aren't taking credit for them all (nor should we; these are mostly Wikipedia copies). And before you start making the inevitable comparisons with Wikipedia's article count after 11 months, bear in mind: our articles are much longer and meatier, and *much* higher quality than the articles were. We've got close to 5 million words in our articles, the median article size being 511 words. For comparison, this e-mail is just 199 words. (In 2001, an article the length of this mail would have been a longish article.) Besides, we didn't go public until last March. I noticed that Alek updated our wonderful statistics page http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Statistics And, considering that we were considerably more active in September than last summer, I think we're not just growing, we're accelerating in many metrics. I expect even more clearly accelerating growth in the months after our next press release (not anytime *very* soon--but soon enough to make me nervous!). In short, we're doing well! Why not celebrate by writing a new article! --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
