On 17/11/2009, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
As long as history doesn't come to an end, and new people keep getting born and (annoyingly) becoming notable enough for a Wikipedia article, there will always be a need for new articles.
Maybe, but I don't know how many. That level doesn't seem particularly obvious on the data yet.
It might be interesting for somebody to try sampling the new article lists and try to work out what percentage of new articles are on a topic that couldn't have been written before (say) the previous month.
Anyway, the world isn't ending (at least until 2012 ;-) ) and the article quality is still marching ever upwards.
Carcharoth