Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Charles Matthews wrote: >> 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? >> >>
Personally I think this is a very interesting point. You will forgive if I have asked this before, and not gotten a reply. (I honestly forget if I have broached this subject before, I know I have often thought I should ask the question.) Does anyone know how many unique (that is not reproduced around other languages) articles there are in toto in the non-English language wikipedias, which do not have a corresponding English language wikipedia article? Can even a rough estimate be made? Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
