Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-03-21/Half-million articles

This story is wrong!

Cyrius and I discussed which article might be the one in IRC, and as you can tell from reading my blog entry, I said it was a tie! - and then I went to bed. The person who made the decision that it was the soviet article and entered it into the press release was user 119, as evidenced by this edit. This happened at midnight UTC. I WAS IN BED! The only thing I had said, which is still available on my blog, is As it turns out, it is impossible to determine precisely who created the 500,000 article and what that article was. The closest we can get is to say it was a six way tie with the top articles on this page.

When I woke up the next day, I found that we now had a press release, and that someone, who I assumed was "official" made the decision for reasons of PR, had decided it was the soviet article, and they were using my data to make that choice. That was fine with me, and wanting to support the foundation and also not have faulty information on my website, I issued an update and simply tried to match their reasoning. True, my attempt at this was faulty, but PLEASE do not put the blame of choosing the article on me. That is simply not the case. I said it was a tie! --Alterego 18:01, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, the article wasn't trying to give you credit or blame for choosing the article. The order of things has been changed to make this clearer, and your work described as a reconstruction. --Michael Snow 19:26, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)