Wikipedia:Announcements April 2001

Announcements for April 2001

April 27, 2001

Stats update: 5041 pages, 3281 "comma" pages, 912 #REDIRECT pages -- WojPob

April 1, 2001

Google (http://www.google.com) has been crawling through Wikipedia and including pages in their database rather slowly. For example, though the Wikipedia History of Levant page is the #1 item for the search "History of Levant", the cached version (http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.wikipedia.com/wiki/History_of_Levant+%22History+of+Levant%22&hl=en) is from way back on February 19 and the cached version (http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Ethical_egoism+%22ethical+egoism%22&hl=en) of ethical egoism is from March 2. Despite the delay, we have a slowly-growing source of traffic--and therefore more contributors, and therefore (very possibly, anyway) an increasing rate of article-writing--from Google and Google-using search engines like Yahoo! and Netscape. The news then, though it's surely not great news to many, is that on Wikipedia "the rich (will) get richer"; or "if we build it, they will come" and in greater and greater numbers.