Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
Charles Matthews wrote:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
>> 2009/2/16 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:
>>
>>
>>> 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?
>
>
Personally I think this is a very interesting point. You will
forgive if I have asked this before, and not gotten a reply.
(I honestly forget if I have broached this subject before, I
know I have often thought I should ask the question.)
Does anyone know how many unique (that is not reproduced
around other languages) articles there are in toto in the
non-English language wikipedias, which do not have a
corresponding English language wikipedia article? Can
even a rough estimate be made?
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen