On 10/03/2008, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Only people with weak ideas dismiss and insult
opinions of others. People
who wish to mass remove articles have this tendency.
Really? I'm crushed, honestly. I consider myself to be an
inclusionist, but I did some more arithmetic on your idea that we
should have an article per star:
According to the Observable Universe galaxy, there's ~1e22 stars in
the observable universe (*rather* more than trillions- and while it's
uncited, it seems consistent with the numbers following it which are
cited). If we assume just 100 bytes of article per star, that's 1e24
bytes. If for the sake of argument we assume that 1G of data costs
$0.1, then that's about $100e12 just for a single copy of all the
articles. Allowing for a duplicate copy, that's ~100x the cost of the
Iraq war (just the disk).
Apart from the costs, I hope you'll forgive me if I find the point of
having 10 trillion articles for each and every man, woman and child on
Earth incomprehensible from the point of view of an encyclopedia.
- White Cat
--
-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
imperfect world things would be a lot better.