Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:16:12 +0000 From: Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com Subject: [WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia
This encyclopedia has been rated as C-Class on the project's quality scale. This encyclopedia has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status:
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- Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met (currently 3.5 million
of an estimated 4.4 million articles)
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You think there are only 4.4 million possible topics? Based on what criteria? Stevertigo also thought this in the essay Wikipedia:Concept limit, which I tagged as [citation needed]. There are probably tens of millions of potentially notable topics, if not hundreds of millions. However, we're better at deleting new articles than writing them and writing a new article that will survive these days requires more detailed research than in years gone by.