On 11/9/03 1:36 PM, "Adam Bishop" grenfell_@hotmail.com wrote:
Why not have entries about everyone who has ever died? An encyclopedia with billions of pages would be fine because it's not paper, right?
As to your first question, it's a bit difficult to find confirmable information about everyone who has ever died. And there are obvious deficiencies in the current organization/search/naming technologies and conventions in the current Wikipedia which would make such an idea unwise.
But as to your second question, yes. Though it's a very good idea for the number of pages to be in some kind of proportion to the audience/contributorship, so until there are, say 10 million editors on Wikipedia, it would probably be a bad idea to take steps to explode the number of pages on the site.