phoebe ayers wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Bod Notbod <bodnot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:57 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> But then, who isn't a contributor since 2004 these days? >> Is there something special about 2004? That's when I became a volunteer. >> >> Is that recognised as the year things reached critical mass? > > No. But there is something special about 2003, when I started :D > > In seriousness, I usually think of mid-late 2003 as our [[Eternal > September]] date. What do others think?
I'll resist the temptation to declare the day I joined as the "day Wikipedia really took off". Actually, I think it was already doing pretty well by then. Maybe the day Wikipedia really took off was the day of the first slashdotting: March 5, 2001. That's what our announcements page says anyway: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements_2001#March_6.2C_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" "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." http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/02/1422244 "Nupedia seems to be too centralized and slow moving for me. I understand the need for quality control, but wouldn't it make more sense to have a more bazaar-type free encyclopedia project?" "Maybe so! People who want to get started _today_ on contributing free texts to the world can do so at Wikipedia. All the content is released under the GNU FDL, and it already has over 1000 articles. Short, and maybe not the high quality of Nupedia, but with time? Who knows... " -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l