On Sat, 06 Apr 2002 08:37:58 lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
I wonder how many articles we really should expect to have. Obviously, we'll never be "done". But the largest dictionaries of English list around 500,000 words.
I would expect us to still be reasonably incomplete even at that; I think we'll have over a million articles easily. There /should/ be far more articles than simple English words, because we'll carry at least an article for each sense of each word, and carry far more detail than a dictionary. After all, we also cover events, people, things, movements, etc. Of our present 30,000, for example, there are about 10 on "chess", 20 on "poker", and 20 on "The Simpsons".
I agree - pick a world atlas. Ideally, we'd have an article about just about every named feature in it.
Not to mention biographies of many thousands of people whose lives are genuinely noteworthy.