2009/8/20 Lars Aronsson <[email protected]>: > David Gerard wrote: >> Yes, completely. Do other Wikipedias show the same S-curve of growth?
> I don't think it's an S-curve. I think we are seeing linear > growth, with a few exceptions in the very early days (years). > But hey, that's growth in the number of articles. We shouldn't > focus on the number of articles, but on the overall usefulness. > Day 1: Create article "Apple is a fruit". > Day 2: Create article "Pear is a fruit". > Day 3: Extend article about apples. Add photos. Cite sources. > Day 3: Zero growth in the number of articles. Panic!!! How about word count? en:wp is currently estimated at about 1.6 BILLION WORDS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes "3 million articles", that somehow doesn't sound as big as A BILLION WORDS. Can you wrap your head around what A BILLION WORDS actually means, how big that really is? (For comparison: Tolkien's 'Lord Of The Rings' is about 470,000 words; Proust's 'À la recherche du temps perdu' is about 9 million words.) - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
