2009/2/16 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>om>:
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?
I'm just going by the statistics, I'm not making any judgements based
on anything else. At the moment, we seem to be following a logistic
curve which levels out at around 3.5 million articles in around
2013-14. (It's asymptotic, but it will be pretty much there by then.)