On 0, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com scribbled:
On 23/05/07, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
...then; I ask you what is the number of articles you think wikipedia should have? A billion? 4 million (over twice we have now)? 20 million? What?
Every census habitation in every country, every politician of at least state/province level in history, every drug, every useful or once-useful chemical ... 20 million sounds like a start. And that's not even letting in pop culture at all. I could be wrong and it could be a lot more.
- d.
As always, one of the classic pages in this vein to read is [[User:Piotrus/Wikipedia interwiki and specialized knowledge test]] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus/Wikipedia_interwiki_and_specialized_knowledge_test): "There are about 2 millions articles in need of translation from non-English Wikipedias, and more then 400 million of specialized topics in need of creation. Wikipedia is just in its infancy..."
-- Gwern Inquiring minds want to know.