Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:16:12 +0000
From: Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)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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2. 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.