3,000
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 those early Wikipedia 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 184 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 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!