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On 06/03/2008, David Gerard wrote:
On 06/03/2008, Wily D wrote:
Even today, as a vetern user of a couple years, I
find it very easy to
edit articles and only run into helpful, friendly people. I just
follow a few simple rules.
I've been creating articles. It's fun. Today I started [[List of Ecma
standards]], which (a) needs completion (b) needs articles on each
standard.
It's not a matter of Wikipedia having all the "low-hanging fruit" - we
have all the fruit that's fallen off the tree. Twenty million topics
have been identified as being within arms' reach ...
Two million? We've barely started.
Definitely. See the following for just some of the subjects "at arms'
length":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons
A selection:
*"The Guide Star Catalog II has entries on 998,402,801 distinct
astronomical objects searchable online."
*"The British Library is known to hold over 150 million items."
*"Genbank, an online database of DNA sequences from over 165,000
species , has over 46 million entries"
*"The National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) GEOnet Names Server
contains approximately 3.88 million named"
*"Thomson-Gale's Biography Resource Center contains over 1,335,000
biographies."
*"31 million CAS registry numbers have been allocated for chemical compounds."
*"the Internet Movie Database claims to have records on 549,131 titles
and 2,280,301 names."
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Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)
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