[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article

[David Goodman]

None ever published have approached either our size or our
completeness. There is no experience, and no prior basis for public
acceptance or non-acceptance.   We have made many assumptions about
what the public wants, but  the public will want different things, and
why should we think we can fulfill every   preference at the same
time?   Perhaps the more rational approach is to do what  our
structure can do well, and let other projects in the future try other
ways and other things and other goals.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:20 PM, geni<geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/19 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> The SOS Children Wikipedia Selection for Schools seems very cut-down,
>> being only several thousand long articles from Wikipedia on a DVD ...
>> so about half the size of the full printed Britannica, then.
>
> Although we still haven't worked out what size people will general
> accept as a fairly complete general encyclopedia.
>
>
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> geni
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