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.
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