Half a million for Russian Wikipedia

Russian Wikipedia has just passed the milestone of 500 000 articles!

I have announced this in English Wikinews story: "Russian Wikipedia reaches half a million articles".

P. S. Coverage in Wikimedia Blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/02/26/half-a-lemon-and-15000000/

update2: another major coverage: http://en.rian.ru/valdai_foreign_media/20100227/158029606.html

The Buzz

I have also attached Google Friend Connect to my website http://ssr.host.ru

Google Buzz

I think Google Buzz was forcibly developed when they saw the recent last-year enormous growth of Facebook. It has synchronization-wise flaws and is developing on the go (is this a beta?). The same for Google Friend Connect. (see also)

More India photos: Delhi Main Bazaar

Another my friend, Nicholas Danilov, has also published his series of excellent photos from India. These photos are well worth looking at, and are also placed at LiveJournal with Russian captions but you also can ask for details freely in English using LiveJournal interface.

This is Delhi Main bazaar:



See rest at http://nl.livejournal.com/879266.html

Ancient observatory

In a new Indian photo post by my friend Vladimirovich, he presents series of photos of an ancient observatory in Varanasi:



See the rest at http://vladimirovich.livejournal.com/268709.html and feel free to ask him in English about the details if you like.