Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/2/16 Charles Matthews <[email protected]>: > >> 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?
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