On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru>wrote;wrote:
I believe there are two different issues. The first is what is the maximum
possible number of articles (this is what I asked). For all practical
purposes (manpower we have, time until Wikipedia will collapce and cease to
exist, etc) we will only able to write a tiny part of them. This is why
media are discussing questions like whether English Wikipedia will ever
reach 5M articles. I think this is a much more complex issue which has to
do with the editor retention dynamics and general lifetime of internet
companies.
There is a lot of content missing. The maximum could actually be quite
great. There is a fair amount of material just not adequately created to
begin with. It isn't just new notable topics in terms of politicians,
sport competitors, sports team seasons, hurricanes, elections, etc. that
can grow. There are a huge fountain of articles not created about these
in pre-existing literature. Beyond that, valid spin-off articles do not
yet exist for many topics. (Within my own framework, there are few
articles on women's sports in a country, and specific women's sports in a
country.) [[Sport in Kiribati]] does not exist, nor does [[Women's sport in
Kiribati]]. And this goes down... With the way English Wikipedia is
structured, you could have an endless variety of these as topics get more
and more filled in.
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