Lest I sound too harsh, remember that the OED, also written with the
help of volunteers, took over fifty years to fully publish.
Yes, but the bulk of the slips (submissions) came in during five years. About where we are now?
Charles
Well, I hope it doesn't take another 45 years to sift through and organise all our submissions :)
But we are going to have to adapt or we'll be relpaced. Early in the project any information coming in was good (a poorly written article being better than no article, usually). As articles mature there will be a point where they stop improving, on average, by random edits. I'm not a fan of page freezing, I'd prefer some kind or released vs working version, plus a mechanism for rev rolling (only for 'released' articles). Or any other check-valve that obstructs the random degeneration while still allowing constant improvement.