Rating the English wikipedia - WikiEN-l

15 Feb 2011

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:16:12 +0000
From: Ian Woollard &lt;ian.woollard(a)gmail.com&gt;
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: <snip>
...
 2. Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met (currently
3.5 million
of an estimated 4.4 million articles) <snip>

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.