2008/6/3 Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com:
What an odd thing to claim. Wikipedia must have many hundreds the number of contributors that Britannica has. Most of the articles I come across have been edited in the last 6 months. I'm not sure how "update the database" is defined here, but if we take it to mean an article being edited, the majority of Wikipedia's database must be updated every year. I would guess that over 75% of Wikipedia articles have been edited in the last year. Are there any statistics on this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AncientPages , but it hasn't been updated since 2006.
Download a dump and get to work ;-)
- d.