2009/2/16 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/2/16 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>: >> >>> I believe we have another decade before Wikipedia lives up to its >>> potential as a comprehensive reference. My main hope is that life >>> around the wiki stays dull enough so that the job largely gets done. >>> >> >> Indeed. Current predictions show growth in terms of article numbers >> pretty much ending in around 4 or 5 years time. We'll then need >> several more years to actually get all the articles up the scratch. A >> decade may even be optimistic. >> >> > Yeah, well, my reaction to the whole "fruit" discussion is that it is > systemic-bias-lite. I'll settle for five years to start most of the > articles of interest to those with a fairly parochial view of what > constitutes an interesting topic, and 25 years more to catch up with the > rest of the planet. You're not telling me that we'll have articles > correspording to all the other language versions - total interwiki > converage - by 2014?
I'm just going by the statistics, I'm not making any judgements based on anything else. At the moment, we seem to be following a logistic curve which levels out at around 3.5 million articles in around 2013-14. (It's asymptotic, but it will be pretty much there by then.) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
