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Proposed new Misplaced Pages templates

I'm amazed that someone out there not only understands Misplaced Pages 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 18:12, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

... I sooo want some of those. --Elaragirl 18:24, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Wonderful! I'm still laughing. Durova 17:21, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Can someone put this on BJAODN? Really, it might not actually belong there per se, but it is damn funny. --Jayron32 05:48, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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)

I like those changes. Good job. :D --SonicChao 17:31, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

DE-WIKIPEDIA --> 500,000_500,000-2006-11-23T01:13:00.000Z">

the DE-WIKIPEDIA reached 500,000 articels --Dirk | <°°> 01:13, 23 November 2006 (UTC)_500,000"> _500,000">

Janina Korowicka is still red ;-) --Ü 02:21, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

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:

42. 21:06, 24 November 2006 ‎We Come 1 (hist) ‎ ‎Haza-w (Talk | contribs) (Created article)

43. 21:06, 24 November 2006 ‎Janina Korowicka (hist) ‎ ‎Slgrandson (Talk | contribs) (Creating EN version of 500,000th German Misplaced Pages article)

44. 21:06, 24 November 2006 ‎Hotel Torni (hist) ‎ ‎Darin-0 (Talk | contribs)

45. 21:06, 24 November 2006 ‎Alonzo Jackson (hist) ‎ ‎Leemays (Talk | contribs)

46. 21:06, 24 November 2006 ‎Briastre (hist) ‎ ‎Hektor (Talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'Briastre')

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)

Yay go Misplaced Pages 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. --Ybbor 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)

There's nothing quite like being named as a milestone to have a page brought up to a high level of quality. I'll wager a small sum that it has had significantly more improvements than article number 1,499,999. :-) — RJH (talk) 18:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Experts rate Misplaced Pages's accuracy higher than non-experts

It's not a very big sample, but ...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061127-8296.html

User:Zoe|(talk) 23:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Interesting, but some of the difference might be caused by the two distinct groups of articles being reviewed. The ones reviewed by experts were selected based on their areas of expertise, and were thus almost certainly fairly academic and technical topics. By contrast, those reviewed by non-expert were chosen with Misplaced Pages's own random article function, and would reflect a very different array of subjects. - SimonP 22:09, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

True. It may also be saying that articles specifically within areas of academic expertise are generally of higher quality than the average wikipedia article. — RJH (talk) 16:50, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

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)

Federal agents vehemently deny disrupting Misplaced Pages for the money: "It's merely to gain sexual favor with President Bush"

After recent allegations suggesting Federal agents were disregarding the US constitution just for the money, several have stepped forward to insist that money has got nothing to do with it. User:Regebro insisted "Money has got nothing to do with it I would gladly do this just for the chance of sucking off the president some day. Most of the other guys have already had their chance, but for me it's still just a dream." User:Tbeatty who is ahead of the line from Regebro says he too cannot stop thinking about having the President's penis in his mouth. "It's all I think about some days" said Tbeatty after taking User:Tom_harrison cock all the way p his ass. Tom says, "None of us deserve it the User:MONGO does though. And he's certainly taken on the President much more than the rest of us. But he's earned it too."

All of the Federal agents first enlisted inspired by an a famous intern in the Clinton administration's courageous service for our country. Mongo said: "Sure we love to disrupt things here on Misplaced Pages and harass legitimate editors. But why do it if you can't take a full load in the moth from the President?" -- Associated Press

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